TORONTO, ON – October 3, 2023 – Sleater-Kinney has announced their 11th studio album, Little Rope, which will be released January 19, 2024 via Loma Vista Recordings with a hauntingly intimate music video for lead single, Hell, directed by Ashley Connor and starring Miranda July. Recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with GRAMMY-winning producer, John Congleton, Little Rope is a powerfully honest and soul-baring album by one of modern rock’s most vital bands. Pre-order Little Rope here. Listen to Hell here and watch the music video here.
 
Little Rope is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in Sleater-Kinney’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent – it careens headfirst into flaw and brokenness – a meditation on what living in a world of perpetual crisis has done to us, and what we do to the world in return. On the surface, the album’s 10 songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that the only way to gain control is to let it go.
 
In the autumn of 2022, Carrie Brownstein received a call from Corin Tucker, who herself had just received a call from the American embassy in Italy. Years earlier, Brownstein listed Tucker as her emergency contact on a passport form, and while she had since changed her phone number, Tucker had not. The embassy staff were desperately trying to reach Brownstein. When they finally did, they told her what happened: While vacationing in Italy, Brownstein’s mother and stepfather had been in a car accident. Both were killed.
 
Although some of the album had already been written, aspects of each song—a guitar solo, the singing style, the sonic approach—were pulled into a changed emotional landscape. As Brownstein and Tucker moved through the early aftermath of the tragedy, elements of what was to become the emotional backbone of Little Rope began to form – how we navigate grief, who we navigate it with, and the ways it transforms us. The result is a collision of certainty and uncertainty evident from the first few spare seconds of the record’s opening track and first single, Hell. Over an agoraphobic expanse of tone and a trickle of chords, Little Rope’s emotional thesis statement begins to take form:
 

Hell don’t have no worries
Hell don’t have no past
Hell is just a signpost when you take a certain path

 
It’s a restrained, controlled prologue, but control is fleeting. A few seconds later, well, all hell breaks loose.

Sleater-Kinney have also announced a 2024 North American tour, beginning on February 28 in San Diego and including multiple nights in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a stop in Vancouver on April 4. Beforehand, the group will perform at Pitchfork Festival London on November 10 and Corona Capital in Mexico City on November 19.  See all tour dates below. Tickets for all 2024 dates will be available on Friday, October 6 at 10:00 a.m. local time. Visit sleater-kinney.com for more information.

Read more about Sleater-Kinney in their bio here. 

TRACK LIST:
1. Hell
2. Needlessly Wild
3. Say It Like You Mean It
4. Hunt You Down
5. Small Finds
6. Don’t Feel Right
7. Six Mistakes
8. Crusader
9. Dress Yourself
10. Untidy Creature

TOUR DATES:
2023
November 10 - London, UK @ Pitchfork London Roundhouse
November 19 - Mexico City, MX @ Corona Capital
2024
February 28 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
February 29 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
March 1 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
March 2 - Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater
March 4 - Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
March 5 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory
March 6 - Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater
March 8 - New Orleans, LA @ Joy Theater
March 9 - Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
March 11- Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
March 12 - Washington, DC @ The Anthem
March 13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
March 14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
March 16 - New York, NY @ Racket
March 17 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
March 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
March 20 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
March 21 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
March 22 - Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
March 23 - St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
March 25 - Kansas City, MO @ The Truman
March 26 - Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
March 28 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
March 29 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
March 30 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
March 31 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
April 2 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
April 3 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
April 4 - Vancouver, BC @ The Vogue
April 5 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom