Pretty & Twisted (album)
Pretty & Twisted is the debut album by the American alternative rock band Pretty & Twisted, released in 1995. It was the band's only album. Pretty & Twisted is dedicated to Marlon Brando. The album's first single was "¡Ride!", which was written with Chris Bailey. The band supported the album by touring with the Young Dubliners. Production The album was produced by Johnette Napolitano; it began as a solo project, with Napolitano initially recording in her home. "Mother of Pearl" is a cover of the Roxy Music song. "Come Away with Me" incorporates unrecorded lyrics written by Janis Joplin. "Singing Is Fire" is a Charles Bukowski poem set to music; "Stranger" was written with Paul Westerberg. Critical reception Trouser Press wrote that "while Pretty & Twisted simplifies things and cuts away the artsier pretensions of latter-day Concrete Blonde, it replaces them with dopier ego indulgences." The Los Angeles Times thought that "there's something both Bowie-esque and Cure-like in the band's aggressively ominous atmospherics—a sound with the grit and the grace to make the edge of desperation seem like the only place to be." The Hamilton Spectator declared that "Napolitano's experience certainly gives Pretty & Twisted a decided advantage as one