“Sympathy” by Sleater-Kinney

"Sympathy" comes from One Beat, the sixth Sleater-Kinney album, which Kill Rock Stars put out in August 2002, and the writing credit goes to all three of them: Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss. John Goodmanson produced it at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon, in sessions that ran through March and April of that year.

The band worked the songs up in Weiss's basement before going in, with singers and guitarists Tucker and Brownstein building parts off each other rather than from a plan, and the writing took longer than it had for All Hands on the Bad One. They meant the record as an answer to the hush that followed the September 11 attacks, and critics warmed to its cathartic force and its progressive politics.

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