| L7 | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | L7 |
| Cover: | L7 - Self-titled Album.jpg |
| Released: | September 1988[1] |
| Recorded: | 1987 |
| Genre: | Punk rock |
| Length: | 31:58 |
| Label: | Epitaph[2] |
| Producer: | Brett Gurewitz |
| Next Title: | Smell the Magic |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
L7 is the debut studio album by American rock band L7, released in 1988 by Epitaph Records.[3] [4] It demonstrates the band's punk rock origins, although there are traces of the heavier grunge sound that dominated their later work.
The album was recorded in Brett Gurewitz's studio, in Hollywood, California.[5] It is the band's only album with drummer Roy Koutsky.[6]
The album's first track, "Bite the Wax Tadpole," refers to the legend that this is a Chinese transliteration of "Coca-Cola."[7]
Trouser Press wrote that the album "is a heady but largely inconsequential introduction; it’s all brute force and speed, grunge as a sheer sonic description."[8]