{"product_id":"no-cities-to-love","title":"No Cities to Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We sound possessed on these songs,\" says guitarist\/vocalist\rCarrie Brownstein about Sleater-Kinney's eighth studio album, \u003ci\u003eNo Cities to Love\u003c\/i\u003e. \"Willing it\rall--the entire weight of the band and what it means to us--back into\rexistence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new record is the first in 10 years from the acclaimed trio--Brownstein,\rvocalist\/guitarist Corin Tucker, and drummer Janet Weiss--who came crashing out\rof the '90s Pacific Northwest riot grrrl scene, setting a new bar for punk's\rpolitical insight and emotional impact. Formed in Olympia, WA in 1994,\rSleater-Kinney were hailed as \"America's best rock band\" by Greil\rMarcus in \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and put out\rseven searing albums in 10 years before going on indefinite hiatus in 2006. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the new album isn't about reminiscing, it's about\rreinvention--the ignition of an unparalleled chemistry to create new sounds and\rtell new stories. \"I always considered Corin and Carrie to be musical\rsoulmates in the tradition of the greats,\" says Weiss, whose drums fuel\rthe fire of Tucker and Brownstein's vocal and guitar interplay. \"Something\rabout taking a break brought them closer, desperate to reach together again for\rtheir true expression.\" The result is a record that grapples with love,\rpower and redemption without restraint. \"The three of us want the same\rthing,\" says Weiss. \"We want the songs to be daunting.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by long-time Sleater-Kinney collaborator John\rGoodmanson, who helmed many of the band's earlier albums including 1997\rbreakout set \u003ci\u003eDig Me Out\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e No Cities to Love \u003c\/i\u003eis indeed formidable\rfrom the first beat. Lead track \"Price Tag\" is a pounding anthem\rabout greed and the human cost of capitalism, establishing both the album's melodic\rdrive and its themes of power and powerlessness--giving voice, as Tucker says,\rto those who \"struggle to be heard against the dominant culture or status\rquo.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bury Our Friends\" has Tucker and Brownstein\rjoining vocal forces, locking arms to defeat a pressing fear of insignificance.\rIt's also emblematic of the band's give and take, and commitment to working and\rreworking each song until it's as strong as it can be. \"'Bury Our Friends'\rwas written in the 11th hour,\" says Tucker. \"Carrie had her great\rchime-y guitar riff, but we had gone around in circles with how to make that\rpart into a cohesive song. I think Carrie finally cracked the chorus idea and\ryelled, 'Sing with me!'\" \"A New Wave\" similarly went through\rmany iterations during the writing process, with five or six potential\rchoruses, before crystallizing. It enters with an insistent guitar riff, and a\rbattle between acceptance and defiance--\"Every day I throw a little\rparty,\" howls Brownstein, \"but a fit would be more fitting.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album's meditative title track was inspired by the trend\rof atomic tourism and its function as a metaphor for someone enthralled and\rimpressed by power. \"That form of power, that presence, is not only\rdestructive it's also hollowed-out, past its prime,\" says Brownstein. \"The\rcharacter in that song has made a ritual out of seeking structures and people\rin which to find strength, yet they keep coming up empty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSleater-Kinney's decade apart made\rroom for family and other fruitful collaborations, as well as an understanding\rof what the band's singular chemistry demands. \"Creativity is about where\ryou want your blood to flow, because in order to do something meaningful and\rpowerful there has to be life inside of it,\" says Brownstein. \"Sleater-Kinney\risn't something you can do half-assed or half-heartedly. We have to really want\rit. This band requires a certain desperation, a direness. We have to be willing\rto push because the entity that is this band will push right back.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The core of this record is\rour relationship to each other, to the music, and how all of us still felt\rstrongly enough about those to sweat it out in the basement and to try and\rreinvent our band,\" adds Tucker. With \u003ci\u003eNo\rCities to Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \"we went for the jugular.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Evie Nagy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sleater-Kinney","offers":[{"title":"Deluxe","offer_id":50679148740673,"sku":"dvm1791987399222","price":25.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50679148773441,"sku":"tyn1791987399223","price":14.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50679148806209,"sku":"jsw1791987399224","price":7.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cassette","offer_id":50679148838977,"sku":"rlr1791987399225","price":6.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital","offer_id":50679148871745,"sku":"hvr1791987399226","price":6.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/4278\/8417\/files\/no-cities-to-love_1.jpg?v=1791987407","url":"https:\/\/uniplyclad.shop\/products\/no-cities-to-love","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}