Peaches "Fatherfucker" (2003)

Fatherfucker
release date: Sep. 15, 2003
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,63]
producer: Peaches
label: XL Recordings - nationality: Canada

Track highlights: 1. "I Don't Give A ..." - 2. "I'm the Kinda" - 4. "Kick It" (feat. Iggy Pop) - 5. "Operate" - 7. "Shake Yer Dix" (feat. Mignon) (live) - 8. "Rock 'n' Roll' - 11. "The Inch"

2nd studio album by Peaches following 3 years after The Teaches of Peaches is again produced by Merill Nisker herself, and it's an album that follows closely in the path laid out by the predecessor.
That said, it's still clearly bettering her 2000 album by being better produced, by having better and more original material, and by being a more coherent release without obvious misses. Stylewise, there are slight differences and I really like the bolder electroclash and dance-punk style on this.
Recommended.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars - Album of the Year 74/100 % ]

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Peaches "The Teaches of Peaches" (2000)

The Teaches of Peaches [debut]
release date: Sep. 8, 2000
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: Peaches
label: Kitty-Yo / XL Recordings - nationality: Canada

Track highlights: 1. "Fuck the Pain Away" - 2. "AA XXX" - 4. "Set It Off" - 5. "Cum Undun" - 8. "Lovertits" - 10. "Sucker"

Studio album debut by Peaches [aka Merrill Beth Nisker] is actually Nisker's second studio album as she released the album Fancypants Hoodlum in 1995 under the name  of Merrill Nisker. I haven't come by her musical debut, which I have seen enlisted in the genre of post-punk, and this is stylistically far from that description, and then Peaches is the name she adopted after moving to Berlin and turning to electronic music. Nisker is a Canadian performance artist and when performing as Peaches she's mainly associated with electronic genres as electroclash, electro-disco using elements of glam rock as well as from punk rock.
On this, I also find an influence from industrial sub-genres. Apparently, Nisker now lives in Berlin, and thinking of that, it seem easier to associate her with Nina Hagen. Like the German art punker, Peaches make use of shock and provocation as means in creating her musical persona. She often refers to and speak explicitly about sex - both as subject as well as a natural ingredient of her language.
The Teaches of Peaches is far from bad. It really reflect great hooks and tracks, although, some songs come out as mere fillers and / or experiments. Anyway, the overall rating may not do justice to the originality of this.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 3,5 / 5 stars ]