Stream: Sleater-Kinney, ‘Bury Our Friends’

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Sleater-Kinney has reunited, because … well, they could. And should. And because Coachella probably needed a strong show-the-kids-how-it’s-done band for April in the desert. (Pure speculation, of course, based in this tour itinerary.) A lot of the riot has been missing from the grrrls since the trio of Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss went on hiatus after 2005’s “the Woods,” their seventh album. And no amount of side projects and imitators quite filled the void. After some teasing – and as the trio’s entire catalog is being reissued in a boxed set titled “Start Together” – the trio announced today that a new album “No Cities to Love” would be Jan. 20 via Sub Pop. It was recorded mostly at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco earlier this year, and in the label’s announcement, Brownstein says: “We sound possessed on these songs, willing it all – the entire weight of the band and what it means to us – back into existence.” This first single “Bury Our Friends,” which features Miranda July, is a good start.

||| Stream: “Bury Out Friends” (feat. Miranda July)

Photo by Brigitte Sire