Sleeve notes
Bratmobile
Pottymouth · 1993
Bratmobile formed in Olympia, Washington in 1991 when Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman began writing a zine together before deciding to start a band, becoming, alongside Bikini Kill, one of the two acts most closely tied to riot grrrl's earliest days. Their sound stayed scrappier and more overtly playful than some of their peers, built on Wolfe's yelped vocals and a deliberately unpolished garage-pop energy.
Pottymouth, their debut album, arrived in 1993, gathering the same wit and lo-fi urgency that had defined their earlier singles into a full-length statement. The band broke up not long after, with Wolfe and Neuman each pursuing other projects, before reforming in the late 1990s and again in the early 2000s for further records ahead of a final split. Bratmobile's contribution to riot grrrl's founding vocabulary, much of it worked out through zines as much as songs, has remained as significant as anything on their records.
