Sleater-Kinney – Little Rope – HeavyPop.at

2024-02-25 06:38:19

from Oliver
on February 25, 2024
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Judging by the classics of their first band life, that would be fine Little Rope probably just as very okay Sleater-Kinney-Standard in indie rock. Given the two previous records Path of Wellness and The Center Won’t Hold However, the band’s eleventh studio album represents a pleasing upward push on the quality barometer.

Which you didn’t have to expect following all St. Vincentto put it very casually, Sleater-Kinney seemed to have been irretrievably ruined five years ago.
The fact that the band is now on the second album since Janet Weiss left (together with tour mate Angie Boylan on drums, Death Cab for Cutie‘s Dave Depper and Outer Orbit‘s Galen Clark as supporters) under the aegis of John Congleton turns out to be a real healing process – and in stylistic terms it’s almost like a swipe at the farewell of the irreplaceable Weiss.
After all, the sound under the renowned producer-all-rounder with the brilliant past (with whom they had supposedly wanted to work together for a long time, but had to wait until the time was right) is now much more rock-oriented than before, the wave factor serves more the compression of the atmosphere.

Even if Sleater-Kinney That’s why they still don’t sound completely hungry or full of energy, but the more compact pressure is good: the production fits in with the rawer unpolishedness that the band probably had in mind – even if the songs in it (which are generally a bit better than last) are the same Attitude can only cope to a limited extent.
The single is an example of this Say It Like You Mean It. Die is a catchy tune in which the synth in the background suggests space, while the focus is on the core of drums, guitar, bass and vocals, but the composition does not challenge its ideas and basic ideas beyond the superficial catchiness, but simply as one Following the hose route, it is relatively boring and with few surprises to be on the safe side.
What can also be seen early on from the song in question: the guitar banter on the record is largely quite generic and uninspired, but the singing is sometimes fantastic. Which is surprising given the fact that… Little Rope In the course of the recording, it became a work of mourning: Carrie Brownstein’s mother and stepfather died in a car accident in Italy in 2022, whereupon she left the vocal parts almost exclusively to Corin Tucker and limited herself to the instrumental and lyrical side of the record.

So things remain ambivalent. The one who is standing so close Needlessly Wild The really good melody is missing, hence the rumbling, booming, howling sound Six Mistakes simply does his job better. If the band rocks, the successes vary anyway (as in the jagged gen Yeah Yeah Yeahs galloping, but almost desolately sleeping sleepy Hunt You Down or the beastly taunting, post-punk seething head nod Small Finds is presented), the solid outliers continue into pop (Don’t Feel Right) or the electric driving tan surface (Crusaders), are solid in an eclectic way, but by no means essential or original and independent.
Nevertheless, it works Little Rope clearly the band’s second best reunion album No Cities to Love. This is ensured on the one hand by the opener, which alternates between intimate restraint and explosive force Hellbut even more so the finale with its beautifully contemplative, waiting, somewhat melancholy dreaming inconspicuousness Dress Yourself (which would be redundant apart from the context) and, above all, the superb blockbuster drama that comes in spurts Untidy Creaturein which Tucker is absolutely captivating on the microphone and it feels like every meter of the reel is igniting shortly before the trembling catastrophe: more magnificent than in this highlight Sleater-Kinney rarely if ever since her return almost ten years ago.
That may still not be enough to round up the points in the rating (because the only 34 minutes of playing time sometimes drags on, even at a balanced level), but it gives you absolute confidence for the future of a band that stands out of their St. Vincent-Sabotage might have recovered despite the personnel amputation once morest all forecasts.

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