Sleater-Kinney Announces First Album in a Decade

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After an eight-year hiatus, Sleater-Kinney has gotten the band back together. The Washington trio announced a January 20 release date for No Cities to Love, their first album together since 2005’s The Woods.

No Cities to Love, releasing via Sub Pop, was recorded at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephones Recordings with producer and longtime collaborator John Goodmanson. Of the album, Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein tells NPR Music: “We had no desire to revisit sounds and styles and paths we had treaded before. But in order to move forward, Corin and I worked together in a way that was more reminiscent of earlier albums like Dig Me Out. Meaning that we would write just the two of us and then bring songs to Janet later on in the process. I think we had to go back to an earlier model of writing in order to reacquaint ourselves with the language of the band. It’s a sonic vernacular that isn’t easily translated into other contexts in which we’ve played.”

Watch the video for “Bury Our Friends,” which features writer and director Miranda July, below, and check out the No Cities to Love track list and 2015 tour dates.

 No Cities to Love Track List:

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

2015 Tour Dates:

02-08-15 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory

02-09-15 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory

02-10-15 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot

02-12-15 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater

02-13-15 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown

02-14-15 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

02-15-15 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall

02-17-15 Chicago, IL @ Riviera

02-22-15 Boston, MA @ House of Blues

02-24-15 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

02-26-15 New York, NY @ Terminal 5

02-28-15 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

03-01-15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE

03-18-15 Berlin, Germany @ Postbahnhof

03-19-15 Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Paradiso

03-20-15 Paris, France @ Cigale

03-21-15 Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix

03-23-15 London, UK @ Roundhouse

03-24-15 Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall

03-25-15 Glasgow, UK @ O2 ABC

03-26-15 Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street

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