7.1
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#28,831
All Time
5
Tracks
“It was back in January that Sleater-Kinney dropped the first hint of what 2019 had in store: a photo of them with St. Vincent in the foreground, all of them glaring confrontationally at the camera. Little more explanation about the collaboration was offered but what’s emerged is the curiously titled The Center Won’t Hold, expertly produced by Annie Clark (St. Vincent) – a loud, brazen fireball of ”
“St. Vincent’s sleek, streamlined production stands out from the rest of the band’s catalog, but all of the elements you first fell in love with are still here.”
“There is no room for nostalgia in Sleater-Kinney’s reunion. The band’s excellent 2015 reentry point, No Cities to Love, was not exactly a rote run-through of past glories. And the trio (now duo) did not spend 2017 going around playing Dig Me Out on some obligatory 20th anniversary run. It barely even feels like a reunion at this point—how has this band not always been here, making its bass-resista”
“Sleater-Kinney were never going to go for the pop jugular half-arsed. In fact it’s been very much full-arsed, with Carrie Brownstein flashing her bare bum in the trio’s latest press shots. Their ninth album is no-holds-barred: slicker, sultrier, synthier, with producer St Vincent yanking their songs about the post #MeToo moment in some unexpected directions and injecting them with noirish electron”
“Sleater-Kinney tries new things throughout The Center Won't Hold and, more often than not, they don't pan out.”
