Little Rope, by Sleater-Kinney

Little Rope

by Sleater-Kinney

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Nancy Huebner We´re so back!!! Favorite track: Six Mistakes.

dbuckner82 I am in awe at the excellence of Little Rope, which is how I could start my review of every single album that Sleater-Kinney has put out. Brownstein and Tucker are one of the greatest musical duos to ever practice the craft, and this album, this wonderful gift to the world. goes deep. Open your heart to these songs; they put theirs into them. Favorite track: Say It Like You Mean It.

drpottsiv my brand new past time is playing this album while I drive home from work. crying and singing/yelling along. Favorite track: Hell.

cinders Sounds like hearing the band live at Golden Plains in 2016 Favorite track: Say It Like You Mean It.

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1.	Hell 03:14	info	buy track
2.	Needlessly Wild 02:51	info	buy track
3.	Say It Like You Mean It 03:44	info	buy track
4.	Hunt You Down 03:32	info	buy track
5.	Small Finds 03:07	info	buy track
6.	Don’t Feel Right 03:50	info	buy track
7.	Six Mistakes 03:08	info	buy track
8.	Crusader 03:37	info	buy track
9.	Dress Yourself 03:28	info	buy track
10.	Untidy Creature 03:28	info	buy track

about

There is about grief the necessary aftertaste of dreaming. In the wake of sudden loss – a moment, a person, a way of being brought violently to an end – the thing lost is gone but not its outline, a strange unstable place in which festers all manner of strange unstable thinking. The rules of reality temporarily subside, and mourning makes of the world a negative space.

Plunged without warning into that space, Sleater-Kinney returns with Little Rope, one of the finest, most delicately layered records in the band’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent – it careens headfirst into flaw, into brokenness, a meditation on what living in a world of perpetual crisis has done to us, and what we do to the world in return. On the surface, the album’s ten songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that only way to gain control is to let it go.

In the Autumn of 2022, Carrie Brownstein received a call from Corin Tucker, who herself had just received a call from the American embassy in Italy. Years earlier, Brownstein listed Tucker as her emergency contact on a passport form, and while she had since changed her phone number, Tucker had not. The embassy staff were desperately trying to reach Brownstein. When they finally did, they told her what happened: While vacationing in Italy, Brownstein’s mother and stepfather had been in a car accident. Both were killed.

In the months that followed, Brownstein took solace in an act that felt deeply familiar – playing guitar. “I don’t think I’ve played guitar that much since my teens or early twenties,” she says. “Literally moving my fingers across the fretboard for hours on end to remind myself I was still capable of basic motor skills, of movement, of existing.”

As Brownstein and Tucker moved through the early aftermath of the tragedy, elements of what was to become the emotional backbone of Little Rope began to form – how we navigate grief, who we navigate it with, and the ways in which it transforms us. Sometimes the process of putting the songs together involved Tucker and Brownstein alone in a room with nothing more than a couple of guitars and amplifiers – a process unchanged since the band started recording in the mid-90s. Sometimes songs that started out quiet slowly transformed into something triumphant. Sometimes the triumphant ones turned out to be quiet songs in disguise.

The result is a collision of certainty and uncertainty that’s evident from the first few spare seconds of the record’s opening track, “Hell,” where over an agoraphobic expanse of tone and a trickle of chords, Little Rope’s emotional thesis statement begins to take form:

Hell don’t have no worries
Hell don’t have no past
Hell is just a signpost when you take a certain path

It’s a restrained, controlled prologue, but control is fleeting. A few seconds later, well, all hell breaks loose.

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Sleater-Kinney Portland, Oregon

shows

May 15

The Powerstation

Auckland, New Zealand
May 17

Fortitude Music Hall

Fortitude Valley, QLD
May 19

Forum Melbourne

Melbourne, VIC
May 23

Metropolis Fremantle

Fremantle, WA
Jun 20

SummerFest

Milwaukee, WI
Jul 25

Brooklyn Bowl - Nashville

Nashville, TN
Jul 26

Majestic Theatre

Detroit, MI
Jul 30

The Queen

Wilmington, DE
Jul 31

College Street Music Hall

New Haven, CT
Aug 3

The Danforth Music Hall

Toronto, ON
Aug 7

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Portland, OR
Aug 12

Rockefeller

Oslo, Norway
Aug 14

Praia Fluvial Do Taboão

Paredes de Coura, Portugal
Aug 17

Astra Kulturhaus

Berlin, Germany
Aug 18

Paradiso Grote Zaal

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aug 20

Carlswerk Victoria

Cologne, Germany
Aug 21

OLT Rivierenhof

Deurne, Belgium
Aug 22

Backstage Werk

Munich, Germany
Aug 23

Les Docks

Lausanne, Switzerland
Aug 25

Victoria Park

London, UK
Aug 27

Barrowland

Glasgow, UK
Aug 28

Brudenell Social Club

Leeds, UK
Aug 29

Larmer Tree Gardens

Sixpenny Handley, UK
Aug 29

Brudenell Social Club

Leeds, UK

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