Inger Lorre

A figurehead of the Los Angeles punk/rock underground of the late '80s, Inger Lorre was best known as the irrepressible leader of Nymphs. Wrangling a mix of punk, glam, hard rock, and the burgeoning grunge sound, their only album, Nymphs, appeared on Geffen -- following a series of contentious delays -- in 1991, shortly before the group disbanded. She took a more varied approach to alternative rock on her first solo album, the confessional Transcendental Medication, which eventually followed in 1999. Although Lorre stayed active in the music scene with soundtrack appearances, solo shows, the occasional single, and a handful of brief Nymphs reunions over the years, it was nearly a quarter-century before she returned with another solo full-length. The musically toned-down, still angst-ridden Gloryland saw release in 2023.