SLEATER-KINNEY - THE CENTER WON'T HOLD VINYL (LTD. ED. GATEFOLD W/ BONUS 7")

LIMITED EDITION GATEFOLD VINYL W/ INNER BAG, BONUS 7" & STICKER SHEET

Release Date: 16th August 2019

The legendary 90's female rock band are back with their ninth album and enlisted the services of Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, as producer with the helping hand for a fresher, poppier sound. The Center Won’t Hold is Sleater-Kinney, but not quite as you've heard them before! 

FFO: St. Vincent, Ex Hex, Superchunk, Priests

"The Center Won’t Hold is the tenth studio album by Sleater-Kinney. It addresses transformation as it relates to the corrosion and decomposition of forms. Fractured and frayed by age or by loss, by internecine politics, by trauma or depression, these eleven songs ask what  remains of a body, a human spirit, a relationship, a city, a country.  If The Center Won’t Hold forces a reconsideration of a band people thought they knew, it’s due to the methodologies employed in the writing and making of the album. The tools upon which Sleater-Kinney had relied proved inadequate, both metaphorically and literally, so they sought new ones. They used the geographical distance between them, along with the larger uncertainty and brokenness swirling around them, as a means of inducing and exploring sonic change. Most concretely, they worked with producer Annie Clark (St. Vincent), who treated each song as its own world, letting them find a specific vernacular through careful construction and deliberation. The most succinct thing to say about The Center Won’t Hold is that Sleater-Kinney continue to challenge the idea of what three women sound like when they create music together over the course of twenty-five years."