“A New Wave” by Sleater-Kinney

"A New Wave" comes off No Cities to Love, the Sub Pop album that ended Sleater-Kinney's decade-long silence in 2015: their eighth studio record and their first since The Woods in 2005. The writing credit goes to the band as a unit, and John Goodmanson produced, recorded and mixed it.

The comeback was built on the quiet. The band made the album in secret, mostly at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone, with more work done at Electrokitty in Seattle and Portland's Kung Fu Bakery. Then Sub Pop let it slip, accidentally streaming the whole thing three weeks early, and the reviews came in glowing anyway: critics were unanimous, and the album landed on several of the year's best-of lists.

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