Sleater-Kinney dropped a bomb on the universe, announcing a surprise reunion by way of releasing the amazing new song “Bury Our Friends.” The second song the trio has shared song from their forthcoming reunion album “No Cities To Love” is called “Surface Envy,” If anything, this is an even better Sleater-Kinney “Bury Our Friends”: A fired-up, full-bodied howler powered by righteous fury and beautifully tangled riffage. The world does not deserve to hear Corin Tucker in roaring-lion form like this,
So the band Sleater Kinney is back! After an indefinite hiatus, some recent teases and a few major hints, the band announced that Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss will release the new album, “No Cities to Love,” on Jan. 20th 2015,via Sub Pop. Sleater-Kinney will also go on an American 13-date tour in 2015, starting in their home state, Washington. lets hope they make it to the UK soon.
The first single, “Bury Our Friends,” is already out with a lyric video featuring Miranda July It lives up to Sleater-Kinney’s legacy of hard guitar riffs and lyrics you just want to chant. The song appears on a new compilation “Start Together,” the band’s career-spanning vinyl box set, which contains a 44-page booklet of photos.
The band premiered “Surface Envy” at the end of a Reddit AMA, during which they provided some information about their 2015 reunion tour. For one thing, they have no plans to collaborate beyond next year. Wrote Janet Weiss, “We are definitely living in the moment and enjoying being together making music again. We all have other projects as well and realize our time in the band is valuable. Not taking SK for granted, and making this album as good as possible works for us this time around. So no plans for the distant future – we’ll make the next few months as amazing as they can possibly be!” They also revealed that Weiss is the “setlist guru” and that we shouldn’t expect to hear any rarities because, per Weiss, “Those might have been weeded out years ago for a reason!” The band also hinted that fans should bring them chocolate chip cookies on tour and revealed that Carrie Brownstein’s Portlandia co-star Fred Armisen has volunteered to roadie for the band.
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