- Music
- 29 May 19
The feminist indie rock band have returned with a new single and an announcement of a North American tour.
Sleater-Kinney are back with a shiny new single 'Hurry On Home' produced by the acclaimed musician Annie Clarke aka St. Vincent.
'Hurry On Home' is their first new music since their celebrated album No Cities To Love back in 2015. The urgent vocals and powerful and layered instrumentation of the track lead to a captivating listen from start to finish.
The lyrics expose vulnerabilities, with the vocals listing out insecurities of being “unlovable, unlistenable, unwatchable” to a lover.
“I think for Carrie and Corin it was liberating to explore a different sound palette,” says drummer Janet Weiss.
“Instead of just going into the studio to document what we’d done, we were going in to explore and to find the essence of something," Guitar and vocals Carrie Brownstein pipes up. "To dig in deeper.”
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Corin Tucker believes that working on the new music “was like this manic energy of empowerment.”
Sleater-Kinney formed back in the 90s, borne out of the underground feminist punk movement Riot Grrrl. Their music has always been unapologetically political.
You can watch the lyric video here: