After seven years spent playing bass for Courtney Love and Billy Corgan, Melissa Auf Der Maur is well-studied in the art of the massive ego. On her solo debut, she enlists the help of a team of alt-rockers (Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri; guitarists from the Pumpkins, Hole and Marilyn Manson), but the 31-year-old’s swaggering come-ons and theatrical self-aggrandizement dominate the album’s slick, goth-tinged pop-metal. Buffeted by big guitars, her thin, untrained voice occasionally sounds listless, but she nimbly navigates the jumpy, circus-like rhythm of the half-ironic “I’ll Be Anything You Want,” laces “My Foggy Notion” with hypnotically astringent melody and upends the stately piano ballad “Overpower Thee” by letting her voice crack at the end. She’s in love with the sound of her own voice, imperfections and all.

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