Sleater-Kinney are set to release a new album this year, announcing their first record in four years is coming in 2019.
This time last year, Sleater-Kinney excited their legions of fans by revealing they were working on a new record. Their first album since 2015’s No Cities To Love, Carrie Brownstein told us not to get our hopes up, explaining they were taking things slowly.
“Now, just so you know, we’re going to do this very slowly,” she explained, “it’s an ongoing conversation.”
Weeks later though, Brownstein gave the band something of a deadline, explaining that the album would be out in early 2019.
“We went back in the studio at the end of 2017 up in Portland and we recorded five songs and we are going to continue in that way for a while,” Carrie Brownstein explained in an interview with Billboard.
“We always feel that sense of urgency around Sleater-Kinney and it was I think a pleasant surprise that we didn’t feel pinned against the wall by the band itself.”
“I would hope that if we continue going as is that an album should be around early next year.”
Of course, we’re now stuck into the aforementioned period of “early next year”, so the album is on it’s way, right? Well, yes, actually!
https://twitter.com/Sleater_Kinney/status/1082668438135263238
2019. @Sleater_Kinney produced by St. Vincent. pic.twitter.com/PY2JW15aIN
— St. Vincent (@st_vincent) January 8, 2019
Taking to Twitter earlier today, Sleater-Kinney revealed their new album will be out in 2019, sharing images of themselves in the studio with producer, St. Vincent.
“If there is an overarching principle to this album, it’s that the tools on which we were relying proved inadequate,” explained Carrie Brownstein to NPR. “So we sought new ones, both metaphorically and literally.”
Of course, the band’s decision to choose St. Vincent has a producer is almost expected by this point, with the musician having covered Sleater-Kinney’s ‘Modern Girl’ last year, and even appearing in an episode of Brownstein’s Portlandia.
At this stage, there’s no exact release date for the band’s new album, but considering the ten year wait fans had between The Woods and No Cities To Love, we’re just happy we’re getting more tunes from Sleater-Kinney.
Check out Sleater-Kinney’s ‘Modern Girl’:
