★★★★★
After the release of 2002's great "One Beat," it suddenly became fashionable to refer to Sleater-Kinney as "the world's greatest rock band." It only takes about five seconds of listening to the Olympia, WA-raised trio's latest offering to realize that such lofty praise didn't go to the musicians' heads. "The Woods" hardly sounds like the commercial-breakthrough attempt that some expected...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Here Sleater-Kinney launch a surprise hook at the side of your head in the manner of a Fugazi or a Dead Kennedys, with a retro-punk vocal authen-toxicity that's more banshee than Siouxsie, but as 2002 as it is 1982...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The winds of change are blowing strong for S-K. New label = Sub Pop, new sound = muscle. Thanks to the magic touch of producer extraordinaire Dave Fridmann (Low, Mercury Rev, Mogwai), a new sonic dimension is added to the recorded repertoire of this Portland trio. Replacing the staccato, reverb-drenched guitar resonances are beefed-up, low-end varieties, which complement the band's signature twin guitar/vocal attack of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
The three years that have passed since Sleater-Kinney released their last album, 2002's One Beat, have not been happy ones: between the war in Iraq, the re-election of President Bush, and the appointment of a torture-condoning Attorney General, Americans have plenty to complain about...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
With their sixth album, Sleater-Kinney, an indie-rock trio from Olympia, Washington, have apparently decided they want to be the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band. It's a brazen goal, to be sure, but while One Beat's streamlined punk rock is pouncing from the speakers, it's hard to think of any other candidates who qualify for the title...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Sleater-Kinney are Pacific Northwest punks, activists and feminist role models, but on their seventh album they rock out like groupie-shagging, drug-snorting golden gods. Corin Tucker's trademark four-alarm wail joins co-singer Carrie Brownstein's bratty bleat in railing against contemporary evils like reality television ("Entertain") and political closed-mindedness ("Wilderness"), as both churn out thick, muddy guitar riffs that seem to have been fermenting since the early '70s...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Think about 2002 for a moment: we had already been through September 11th and were mired in confusion. We were screaming for ways to release our raw, unified energy, and were often dissatisfied at the moves being made. Sleater-Kinney's sixth album, One Beat, was written as a response to these feelings and, while poignant, dared us all to change. In 2005, their follow-up, The Woods, harkens back to that statement, angered by how little we've accomplished...
- www.lostatsea.net
2009-10-30
★★★★★
I've always been bad at bandwagon-jumping. It only arrived upon me that Chicago had a basketball team after this Jordan guy retired and the Toni Kukoc era began. I didn't get into "Twin Peaks" until the second season, when they started trying to explain everything and ruined it. "The Big Lebowksi" and "The Hudsucker Proxy" are my two favorite Coen Brothers films. About three days after I bought Frame And Canvas, I found out Braid was breaking up...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Since 9/11 so few groups have crafted any kind of response to that event that one is tempted to think that the ever-cool and escapist forces of irony have won out, and muzzled rock'n'roll from expressing its passions. Sleater-Kinney's One Beat is less of a protest album than a visceral reaction to one of the most visceral, communally witnessed events of this media age. The title track and track two "Faraway" seem to have sprung fully formed from the impact of airplanes hitting buildings...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
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