Sleater Kinney / Wild Flag / Quasi / related bands

[VinylGuy]

No Cities To love and A New Wave are so subpar, b sides material its a huge drop off comparing them with the previous three.

[VinylGuy]

No Anthems is way better...but Gimme Love is just awful.

[VinylGuy]

Bury Our Friends lifts again, but Hey Darling again puts a b side collection taste on this album.

Luckily, Fade comes and its the best album of the whole. Sounds like a single from The Woods with Corin really going for it. I just adore the guitars, the chorus...wow.

[MadTIGERmaN]

Okay, so given that I've only heard NCTL and The Woods and I really dig both of those... what album should I dive into next? Should I just jump back to the beginning and start there?

go in order, starting with S/T
they seriously got better with every album

The Woods / When the Going Gets Dark (Quasi) is Janet at her absolute best! back to back killer albums


I actually like NCTL the song, more than NCTL the album so I guess I'm in the minority on here

[verb_to_trust]

Im probably going to end up liking the new Filthy Friends record a lot more than this.

[swan]

presale is live for the whole tour

[Revelator]

Yup, got my ticket for DC today. Looking forward to the new album.

[bodysnatcher]

i'm hoping some of the songs on the new album are better than this first single, and they don't have that "St. Vincent wanted to make a rock record, but knew she couldn't make the rock record she wanted, so she's using Sleater-Kinney as her vessel" feel to it.

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]

i'm hoping some of the songs on the new album are better than this first single, and they don't have that "St. Vincent wanted to make a rock record, but knew she couldn't make the rock record she wanted, so she's using Sleater-Kinney as her vessel" feel to it.

Carrie's turn towards "I love fame" coupled with her dating St. Vincent, and Annie's obvious stamp on this thing, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I have no idea, but the music and the promo material doesn't feel like a SK album to me; it feels like an Annie/Carrie project with Corin and Janet just playing their parts.

While im exited about this album and i love the single, yes i see this too. Specially in the promo picks it. Corin looks so side tracked and Janet is barely there in the single.

I didnt know Carrie and Annie are lovers.

[darth_vedder]

i'll be seeing them in october

[Leatherhead]

I'm totally stoked for whatever SK wants to do. Got tickets for 11/19, my birthday.

[Leatherhead]

I feel like Carrie's been taking over since The Woods.

[Stardog Champion]

I haven't seen them before, but I'm finally going in October.

[MadTIGERmaN]

I feel like Carrie's been taking over since The Woods.

It was Janet actually who was pushing the sound in The Woods. She was the one that really loved that producer / wanted that "noise" If you listen to the Quasi album that was out around the same time it actually has a very similar feel. And the band soon after went on hiatus because Carrie couldn't handle the fame... But since Portlandia I would definitely agree with your statement.

[LoathedVermin72]

Shit, I didn't even realize they had a new single. I think it's fucking great. It sounds new and different and exciting.

I'm glad they're not going out on NCTL.

[digster]

I feel like Carrie's been taking over since The Woods.

It was Janet actually who was pushing the sound in The Woods. She was the one that really loved that producer / wanted that "noise" If you listen to the Quasi album that was out around the same time it actually has a very similar feel. And the band soon after went on hiatus because Carrie couldn't handle the fame... But since Portlandia I would definitely agree with your statement.

FWIW, from a critic and fan of the band:

That being said, I felt like Corin and Janet were as present on NCTL as they've always been, maybe even more so. Carrie took the lead on two, maybe three songs? There's a lot of songs on there where Corin's taking the lead pretty much all the way through the track (with the caveat that saying one singer's taking the lead vocal on a song can sometimes be tricky with SK).

[LoathedVermin72]

Guys I’m a huge huge fan of this song

[Leatherhead]

Guys I’m a huge huge fan of this song

Nice. I fuckin love that outro. Wish it wasn't just an outro.

[bodysnatcher]

New S-K song out