Hole’s first album in 12 years, like frontwoman Courtney Love, is a fascinating, acidic, and inconsistent display of talent.

The new line-up’s sound is still treble-heavy guitars and chainsaw-rasp vocals, which feel fresh and dated in almost equal measures. But if 1998’s Celebrity Skin was about the vacuum and emptiness of Hollywood, Nobody’s Daughter is bitterness at no longer being the centre of that scene. Samantha and Skinny Little Bitch scream disgust at the behaviour of gutter-trash scenesters, but there’s hypocritical envy and carefully marketed self-loathing just below the surface.

The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and songwriter/producer Linda Perry co-wrote tracks for the album, and two standouts – Pacific Coast Highway and Honey – clearly benefit from Corgan’s input. Veering between furious, melancholic and – in Letter To God – a cry for help, Nobody’s Daughter won’t convert any Love haters, but it’s a solid and entertaining, if unremarkable, album.