Sleater-Kinney release new single with “a big guitar riff, and an even bigger vocal”

Sleater-Kinney are back with a new single ahead of this month’s 11th album Little Rope. The duo have today (January 4) shared new single Untidy Creature, along with an accompanying video that speaks ​“to the themes which permeate Little Rope: uncertainty, restlessness, urgency, all of the in-between and discomfiting states with which we’re forced to reckon,” say the band. “We came up with the idea of a woman holding her breath in a bathtub for the duration of the song, unsure of her motivations, not knowing whether she’s seeking escape, disappearance, absolution, or simply a moment of quiet and reprieve. We love the tension created by an act that defies both custom and comfort.” Of the track itself, Sleater-Kinney explain: ​“Untidy Creature was the first song ...

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