Sleater-Kinney talk new single ‘Untidy Creature’ and grief-driven new album: “This is not a somber record”
Back in October, the Washington alt-rock icons announced their 11th studio LP ‘Little Rope’, which is set for release on January 19, and shared the lead single ‘Hell‘ followed by ‘Say It Like You Mean It’. Now, they’ve kicked off 2024 with ‘Untidy Creature’ – featuring that signature blend big riffs alongside Tucker’s wailing vocals.
“And it feels like we were broken / And I’m holding the pieces so tight / And you can try to tell me I’m nothing / And I don’t have the wings to fly,” Tucker howls during the chorus, describing a relationship in turmoil.
“The song is meant to be like a personal story about feeling trapped and are unable to move forward,” explained Tucker. “It’s about a relationship that sometimes feels like that so, it’s meant to be the very core personal moment where you are feeling that constriction.”
“One of the things we want to do as songwriters is to try and tell a personal story and use that story to kind of reflect what’s going on in the larger world,” she said. “That bit of heartbreak is reflected in the song and the way that I think women are being viewed as not good enough to make those decisions for ourselves. I was trying to mirror that personal and that larger political story at once in the song.”
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