“an empowering journey into the dense fog of grief”
““High stakes are something you can’t fake,” said Carrie Brownstein to this reviewer in an early interview for this eleventh full-length from Sleater-Kinney. “And when the stakes are high, music and art take on a different form entirely.” Emotionally speaking, there couldn’t have been much more riding on these ten songs for Brownstein and long-time collaborator Corin Tucker by the time they came to”
“No work of art exists in a vacuum. But if we imagined for a moment that the 11th album by Sleater-Kinney – the evergreen duo of singing guitarists Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker – had arrived free of context, without the baggage of life events, its 10 songs might land in certain ways, and maybe not others. Perhaps the sharpness of its pointillist post-punk would garner effusive praise, or the”
“Grief clarifies the air in Sleater-Kinney’s taut 11th album, which processes loss and societal turmoil and finds strength in chosen family.”
“The duo's 11th studio album features some of their most promising music since No Cities to Love, but its highs play tug of war with its lows.”
“Little Rope proves Sleater-Kinney still have stories to tell”
