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Warning: “The whole friggin’ country club is under attack,” and the demigoddess grungers L7 are back for the first time in 18 years, setting fire to the internet and the “Winter White House” in their new song “Dispatch From Mar-a-Lago,” released on Don Giovanni Records. For frontwoman Donita Sparks and lead guitarist Suzi Gardner, who reunited to write the lyrics, tongue-in-cheek hellfire is common format. In fact, there’s a video of the band from Lollapalooza back in 1994 where they’re interviewing Nick Cave about his song “Let Love In.” Sparks asks Cave, “Let love in where?” and dangles a sunflower in his face.
In the ‘80s and ‘90s, L7 rose out of the punk-rock, metal-rock, hair-rock collision with a voice of blunt reason, whether it was speaking out against the utterly bullshit Balkan war or pairing with The Feminist Majority Foundation for a series of pro-choice benefit concerts called Rock for Choice. It makes sense, then, that we’re receiving “Dispatch From Mar-a-Lago” in the wake of political/environmental/social collapse—the band told Pitchfork, “Fuck it. We don’t care if this is topical and, quite frankly, we’re one of the only bands that could actually fucking do it. Because we’ve got that humor and that furiousness, and we take on politics and society.”