There’s a deluxe edition of Sleater-Kinney’s “Little Rope” out in November featuring a bonus disc of extra songs. Say the band: “‘This Time’ was the last song we wrote for the record and the last to get cut once we decided we preferred the evenness and succinctness of ten songs. About a person reaching the limits of denial, ‘This Time’ exists on the thematic edges of “Little Rope”, an album wrestling with loss and its aftermath.”
Sleater-Kinney released their eleventh studio album, “Little Rope” via Loma Vista Recordings. Recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, a powerfully honest and soul-baring album by one of modern rock’s most vital bands. “Little Rope” is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in Sleater-Kinney’s nearly 30-year career.
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 the only way to gain control is to let it go.
2xLP Vinyl of “Little Rope” (Deluxe)
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