Sleater-Kinney - Little RopeSleater Kinney returns with Little Rope, one of the finest, most delicately layered records in the band's 30 year career. On the surface, Little Rope's ten 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

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the legendary Gene MacLellan

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Under the expert direction of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

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writing the songs in the studio

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