Sleater-Kinney stream thrashing new track, ‘Surface Envy’

As part of their Reddit AMA, Sleater-Kinney decided to share a brand new song from their forthcoming ‘No Cities To Love’ LP.

‘Surface Envy’ is the second track to emerge from the record, following ‘Bury Our Friends’. Dagger sharp and sinister from the off, the track gets by a rule-breaking mentality, hellbent on shaking foundations from the core.

In their Reddit AMA, the band talked through the following things:

- The media celebrating diversity: “Stereotypes are so stifling and can quell creativity. We need to open up options as far as the complexity of our personalities.”

- What made them reunite: “It felt like we still had a story to tell. We felt compelled to explore how to tell that story.”

- Being for/against nostalgia: “I don’t have anything against it. But I think it is pernicious to think that everything good happened in the past.”

- Favourite cookie type: “Gotta say I am a chocolate chip cookie kind of girl. But the double chocolate option would be my second favorite.”

They shared ‘Surface Envy’ after asking a fan “Wanna hear another one from the new album?”.

Previously, when speaking about the writing process for the new LP, Carrie Brownstein said: “We wrote in my basement. It took on many permutations, and eventually we settled on a process that was a little more akin to what we had done in the early years, partially because Corin and I had to kind of reacquaint ourselves to the very specific vernacular that she and I speak, musically. And so, [she] and I would work on songs and then bring them to Janet, instead of jamming … It’s almost telepathic. I think that Corin and I can complete each other’s musical sentences in a way that never ceases to surprise me.”

Listen to ‘Surface Envy’ below. The new album is out 19th January on Sub Pop.