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Sleater-Kinney Reorganizes Its World
“Once you have decades of fury coming out, it’s going to be big.”
The band’s newest album, the excruciatingly hopeful Little Rope, rose from the ashes of tragedy: Brownstein’s mother and stepfather were killed in an overseas car crash in 2022, with her bandmate and close friend, Corin Tucker, receiving the call from an embassy as her emergency contact. Was liberation on your minds while crafting this one?CB: It’s pushing up against your own self limitations or internal dialogue of criticism and feeling your emotions are often mismatched with the context. What does that represent for you both?CT: It’s a subtle way of saying, “I need more freedom to live my life.” That’s a pretty big concept considering how it feels like the bodily autonomy of so many people in the United States has been challenged in the past couple of years.
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