Sleater-Kinney’s First St. Vincent-Produced Single Is Here, And It’s Very, Very Good
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Sleater-Kinney is back — after teasing new and St. Vincent-produced music since the beginning of the year, they’ve released ‘Hurry On Home’, an electric and aggressive listen.
It’s the trio’s first music in four years (besides a one-off included in a Planned Parenthood fundraising compilation in 2017), when they released their eighth album No Cities To Love, a return from a near decade long hiatus.
Needless to say, the news this January that the band was in the studio broke a certain part of the internet, happy we wouldn’t wait so long again. As did the news that St. Vincent would produce their album — besides Carrie Brownstein and Annie Clark’s long-standing friendship, the idea of the two acts collaborating just makes sense.
The song was released alongside a Miranda July-directed lyric video, which uses an iPhone’s screen-capture function to show a frantic text conversation — and some anxiety-driven Googling and butt-zooming.
The trio have also announced a US tour, and their label Mom + Pop have confirmed the pending album’s title is The Centre Won’t Hold, assumedly a reference to Joan Didion’s famous 1969 essay Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion’s line itself a reference to W.B Yeats).
Watch the lyric video below.