Sleater-Kinney unveil new album The Middle Gained’t Maintain, produced by St. Vincent: Stream

Sleater-Kinney with St. Vincent, picture by Jonny Stills

Sleater-Kinney return at this time with their new album, The Middle Gained’t Maintain. Subscribers of Apple Music and Spotify can hearken to it in full under.

The Middle Gained’t Maintain marks Sleater-Kinney’s ninth full-length so far and follow-up to their 2015 reunion LP, No Cities to Love. It’s additionally the band’s ultimate launch with Janet Weiss behind the equipment, because the drummer introduced her departure from Sleater-Kinney shortly following the announcement of The Middle Gained’t Maintain.

The 11-track LP was produced by Annie Clark, a.ok.a. St. Vincent. “We initially thought we might simply go into the studio along with her for just a few days to see what occurs,” Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker instructed Exclaim in an interview. “We did it extra as an experiment, however she was actually superb. She had so many concepts. She was actually ready. We received 4 songs executed in 5 days — like, core songs of the album. She has a very completely different skillset from Carrie and I. She has all of this data about synthesizers and has made music in numerous methods. And she or he’s additionally a author and a singer, so she brings a whole lot of completely different expertise to producing that was fruitful and introduced out new concepts from the band.”

To assist The Middle Gained’t Maintain, Sleater-Kinney will quickly embark on a prolonged tour. You may get tickets to their upcoming dates right here.

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