Sleater-Kinney breaks up

Yeah it definitely just sounds like an actual bass guitar this time.

I would have thought there'd be at least some reaction by now!

― Ned Raggett,

Golden Globes exhaustion

just finished, i liked it! i thought the first single was probably the worst song but overall it was solid, very frantic vibe & quick paced, like that they kept it short and punchy, running time can't be that long

overall it feels a bit like the mission of burma post reunion albums or dino jr. post reunion albums, a band just sort of magically picking up where they left off

is the first song about sourcing your produce

loving this album

some fuckin NOISES on this thing

on one listen i'm loving this better than any s-k album since one beat, which is my favourite of all their albums

you're loving this better than the woods

i've never been able to get into any s-k album other than one beat, it just seems a thousand times hookier than anything else they've done. but this is reminding me of it!

Yeah this was fantastic.

'one beat' is their hookiest to date (along with this) but the other albums are great too. however i think maybe you'd like the tunes from the other albums better live, because when i saw them live in 2000 everything clicked for me, they are incredible onstage.

title track is noice

yes! i bought tickets for me & my wife because they went on sale right before our anniversary and she's a huge fan but the show in minneapolis happens to actually be ON valentine's day so i was like wtf are we gonna do about babysitting but it turns out a friend of ours can so we can go :)

i figured i could flip the ticket because it sold out in like 15 mins but still psyched to be able to go

It took 2-3 tracks for the album to really "kick in" for me, but now we're rolling.

I still prefer The Woods to this but I'm not a serious S-K fan, so...

its not a new wave -- its just yooooo and meeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLwD1to3dZU

awesome

who is the mystery 4th person?

Love S-K, but something about that makes me want to see them less.

Love this. I don't know who the 4th person is either but those sounds in the breakdown were glorious.

As much as I love the chorus and breakdown of "A New Wave", I feel like the guitar line in the verse doesn't make much sense. Kinda melodically aimless or something.

Brooklyn Vegan reveals it is "Katie Harkin of UK band Sky Larkin who will be playing guitars and keyboards for their upcoming tour"

Harkin of Larkin

Is Corin playing a baritone?

yeah i thought it was bass on the record but maybe baritone?

Stupid Winamp/CDDB doesn't recognize this yet.

in the no cities to love video, I thought Natasha Lyonne was in orbit.

Xxxpost Evan I agree, didn't notice the part as much until seeing Carrie play it

It's just a bit wonky.

if I'm being honest with myself, it looks like they're cashing in-and hey, more power to them. they probably deserve it more than just about anyone I can think of off the top of my head.

I dunno you don't really need to bother with doing an album if you just want to cash in, cf Pavement, Archers, Outlast, etc etc

For some reason, almost all late show indie performances seem tossed off in this way, just kind of sarcastic and not committed-to.

"Fangless" sounds like Franz Ferdinand.

Outlast

Great typo.

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On an unrelated note, I find this to be a solid but kinda unspectacular record. Like most decent reunion albums, really

Just dawned on me that in the time Sleater-kinney was away, Belle and Sebastian only released one proper album.

two - '06 and '10.

Life Pursuit dropped prior to the S-K breakup announcement tho. (February '06 vs. June '06)

The last s-k thing I heard was Dig Me Out. Watching the Letterman thing, Was not expecting Major key harmonies on the chorus.

This is amazing though. Over before you know it and every song on the album is tight. Gives me a feeling like when Weezer reunited and came out with the green album, in that respect. Bury Our Friends sounds even better in context.

Superb. I can definitely see several 32 minute blocks of my time in the coming days devoted to listening to this album, which is more than I can say for a lot of new stuff.

As for "it's like they've never left' comments, contextually this set makes perfect sense coming after the last Corin solo lp, while also remedying one thing that both of her solo collections lacked in giving her back a voice to trade lines with.

My biggest complaint is there isn't a really an obvious popcorn/summer jam funtimes track ala "Oh!", "Little Babies", "Prisstina" etc.

pretty sure "Hey Darling," the title track, and "Surface Envy" are those songs.

I admire the number of killer hooks but the guitars, vocals, and rhythms are less tangled than on their other records. I'm just not as impressed.

Really enjoying this record after 3 listens! I imagine I will like it even more as I continue playing it.

the Spin review today said there is not a Corin-wailing song, which is a big concern.

There are more Corin vocals than Carrie on this record, so that's a plus for me.

that's just like… there should be wailing. and wailing about there not being wailing.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61yHfYN768L.jpg

There are more Corin vocals than Carrie on this record, so that's a plus for me.

Actually there are a lot of guest vox on the new thang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj2k3QsHmyM&x-yt-cl=84359240&x-yt-ts=1421782837

Ok, listening to the Conan performance of Surface Envy now, this is a lot better, lots of Corin.
this is really kind of a new sound for them-Carrie bringing a lot more St. Vincent/Belew-type into her playing, and Corin again with the baritone(?) or super de-tuned 6, almost gets a fuzz bass sound going. Awesome.
http://teamcoco.com/video/sleater-kinney-01-20-15

the guitars, vocals, and rhythms are less tangled than on their other records. I'm just not as impressed.

This is true, but also the direction they've been headed since All Hands. I think Hot Rock was the peak of tangled vocals and rhythms, then they got interested in more straight-ahead rock -- which they do well.

On just two times through, I like the new one a lot. Not sure where it will ultimately fall in my SK ranking, but really I have albums 2-4 on a pedestal and all the rest one rung lower. This one will fit in comfortably with the latter group.