{"id":160034,"date":"2026-06-16T16:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=160034"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:55:54","slug":"violet-grohl-be-sweet-to-me","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/violet-grohl-be-sweet-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Grohl – Be Sweet To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s a particular kind of pressure that comes with a famous surname, and Violet Grohl has spent the better part of her young life navigating it gracefully. She’s long been orbiting the rock world \u2014 covering X alongside her father, joining the Foo Fighters on the road, and singing “All Apologies” with surviving Nirvana members. Though on her debut album, Be Sweet To Me<\/em>, the 20-year-old is past all of that, stepping into her own version of the limelight, and trying as hard as she can to avoid the nepo baby curse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No one would fault her for going for that 2000s alt-rock vibe her father helped shape, but instead, she sinks her teeth into a vibe similar to The Breeders, Hole, and all of the sound of central tension between sweetness and grit, between melody and noise. Opening track “Thum” is a fuzzy ripper \u2014 a confident statement of intent that arrives with enough fuzz and forward momentum to show that Grohl means business. “595” is even better: a sly, sexy slasher filled with jolts of noise and a killer chorus, inspired, brilliantly, by vintage phone sex line advertising, kind of like old Kim Gordon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The songs on Be Sweet To Me<\/em> tend to be impressionistic, coloured by Grohl’s love of film and particularly the work of David Lynch, and that Lynchian quality \u2014 the sense of something slightly off beneath a bright surface. The closer, “Plastic Couch” really surprised me; how can a 20-year-old understand hypnotic dysphoria so well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 32-minute album arrives during a moment when younger rock artists are revisiting the aesthetics and production approaches of ’90s alternative music, but Grohl doesn’t feel like a revivalist. Instead, she sounds like someone who absorbed all of that naturally and is filtering it through her own sensible veil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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