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Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope review – pain, defiance and seizing the day
The US rock duo process shock and grief on an album that never wallows in sadness, and instead includes at least one feelgood banger
Little Rope feels, after all, like one of Sleater-Kinney’s most taut and focused outings, with every crisp guitar line and expressive vocal showcased in textured relief, standing proud with space around it like the raised print on an old-style debit card. The defiant Untidy Creature, the closing track, supplies a reaction to the overturning of Roe v Wade by the US supreme court in 2022, ending the federal right to legal abortion, dragging the clock backwards on female self-determination. Say It Like You Mean It could be Sleater-Kinney’s most mainstream song yet, a full-throated goodbye to love whose Brownstein-directed video starring Succession’ s Gerri Kellman – the actor J Smith-Cameron – might nod, elliptically, at the invisibility of older women, as well as the despair at not being seen within a relationship.
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