Sleater-Kinney return with new album ‘No Cities to Love’! Hear ‘Bury Our Friends’

Yep, it’s true. Sleater-Kinney are back.

Late last week there were rumblings of a new album following a mysterious white 7” appearing in Sub Pop’s discography box-set release for the band’s ‘Start Together’, emblazoned with the date ‘1/20/15’. On that was the new track ‘Bury Our Friends’, which you can watch a lyric video for below featuring director/artist/actress/author Miranda July.

The aforementioned date marks the US release of a new album - their first in ten years, ‘No Cities to Love’, which will drop in the UK on January 19th. The record is produced by John Goodmanson, who worked on ‘Call the Doctor’, ‘One Beat, Dig Me Out’ and ‘All Hands on the Bad One’. “We sound possessed on these songs,” says Carrie Brownstein, “willing it all - the entire weight of the band and what it means to us - back into existence.”

Speaking to NPR about the album, Brownstein further added that she “spent a lot of time writing choruses for this record. Melody is was what I was most picky about. I really drove Corin crazy sometimes. We would have choruses that we would work on for hours, days, maybe on and off over a matter of weeks. And we’d think we had solved it, but then I would listen to it later on and decide to discard it, that it wasn’t good enough.”

The tracklisting reads:

1. Price Tag
2. Fangless
3. Surface Envy
4. No Cities to Love
5. A New Wave
6. No Anthems
7. Gimme Love
8. Bury Our Friends
9. Hey Darling
10. Fade