OW EXCLUSIVE: MELISSA AUF DER MAUR – AUF DER MAUR

UNMISTAKABLY MELISSA.

Born in Montreal to Linda Gaboriau, one of the city’s pioneering female rock radio DJs, Melissa Auf der Maur’s trajectory was unexpectedly redirected by a single thrown bottle. After apologising to Billy Corgan for a friend’s behaviour at an early Smashing Pumpkins show, she struck up a friendship that would change the course of her career. In 1994, Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love, leading to her joining Hole for the Live Through This touring era. He later recruited her into the Smashing Pumpkins for their MACHINA-era live line-up. Across two of the defining alternative-rock bands of the ’90s, she established an unmistakable presence.

With her 2004 solo debut, Auf der Maur, she put her own name—and her own creative vision—at the centre. Co-produced with Chris Goss, the record brings together a formidable circle of collaborators, including Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri of Queens of the Stone Age, the Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha, Tomahawk’s John Stanier and Hole’s Eric Erlandson. Muscular riffs and crunching production meet breathy vocals and towering choruses, moving between alternative-rock force and psychedelic atmosphere. It is a commanding statement from an artist defining the sound on her own terms.

✦ ODDWAX EXCLUSIVE EDITION ✦

Never before pressed to wax. Making its global vinyl debut and executed in direct collaboration with Melissa Auf der Maur, this definitive edition has been meticulously custom-mastered specifically for the format. The ODDWAX Exclusive x2LP edition of Auf der Maur is pressed on a custom heavyweight Metallic Antique Copper Marble. Housed in a heavyweight, matte-laminate gatefold sleeve, it comes packed with custom luxe fibre die-cut inner sleeves and a curated double-sided art poster. Finished with a custom individually hand-numbered ODDWAX holographic hype sticker, this one-time pressing will never be repressed once sold out. Strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide, hand-numbered to order and restricted to 1 per collector. The definitive edition to own, exclusively on ODDWAX.

This is a strictly limited run for the true collectors. The stage door is open, get access.

TRACKLIST

SIDE A

1. LIGHTNING IS MY GIRL
2. FOLLOWED THE WAVES
3. REAL A LIE

SIDE B

4. HEAD UNBOUND
5. TASTE YOU
6.  BEAST OF HONOUR

SIDE C

1. I'LL BE ANYTHING YOU WANT
2. MY FOGGY NOTION
3. WOULD IF I COULD

SIDE D

4. OVERPOWER THEE
5. SKIN RECEIVER
6. I NEED I WANT I WILL
7. TASTE YOU (TE GOÛTER)