Lav's Music Corner

Review by Lav: Washington punk outfit Sleater-Kinney has been around for three full decades now. The band is responsible for some classic albums I absolutely love like The Woods  and Dig Me Out.  After some time away the band reunited in 2014 and returned with a great comeback record in No Cities To Love . But since then I haven't been crazy about their output. While 2021's The Path Of Wellness was more forgettable than anything else its predecessor The Center Won't Hold  might be the only Sleater-Kinney project I outright dislike. Following some singles I enjoyed and positive buzz towards this new album I was hoping for a second comeback of sorts from the band, which didn't exactly come to fruition.  My favorite of the singles was the third Untidy Creature , which ends the album. It's one of the only songs here that really feels like it carries the weight of Sleater-Kinney's impressive career with a hook that rushes through a soaring vocal performance and stick...

Sleater-Kinney are a female fronted punk rock outfit from Washington with origins in the riot grrrl movement of the 1990's. The bands original run of records leading up to the mid 2000's is a universally acclaimed set of punk and indie rock releases and that acclaim continued when the band reformed in 2015 with their No Cities To Love  comeback album. They're 9th album was released in 2019 to very mixed reviews and is seen by many as one of their worst despite drawing attention for its St. Vincent production, and Path Of Wellness  is the first record to not feature longtime drummer Janet Weiss.  Review By Lav: I love Sleater-Kinney, from widely accepted classics like The Woods  and No Cities To Love  to underrated gems like Dig Me Out  and The Hot Rock  the girl's punk flare has always appealed to me. This is why it was so difficult to hear 2019's The Center Won't Hold  which did feature a few great songs but was largely the bands most muddled and...

Sleater-Kinney are an American indie rock band who released a number of critically acclaimed records in the late 90's into the mid 2000's highlighted by 1997's Dig Me Out  and 2005's The Woods . After breaking up after the release of the latter album the band took ten years before reuniting and releasing a universally acclaimed comeback album No Cities To Love in 2015. The band started 2019 off with the announcement that St. Vincent had produced this record in its entirety, as well as facing the departure of their long time drummer from the band after the recording of the record was already completed. Review By Lavender: Sleater-Kinney really need no introduction, their low-fi rock of the 90's and blistering indie records in the 2000'a left enough of a legacy for the band alone. On top of these their 2015 comeback record No Cities To Love  really surprised me with its short punchy songs full of a youthful energy I didn't predict from the band. After s...