Path of Wellness
On their first self-produced record and first in 24 years without drummer Janet Weiss, Sleater-Kinney find pleasant comfort and not much else with down-the-middle rock tunes.
The band's first album since drummer Janet Weiss' departure draws on the spiny gloom of their turn-of-the-millennium sound
Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker reckon with protests, pandemic dread and '70s rock influences on their 10th album.
A songwriting bond once defined by their differences has given way to a seamless understanding.
Self-produced during the pandemic, the album captures the feel of two minds bouncing off each other
Path of Wellness can't help but feel like the second act to The Center Won't Hold, the 2019 album that found Sleater-Kinney striving for something new with the assistance of producer St. Vincent.
When Sleater-Kinney joined forces with St. Vincent to create their sleek, heavily stylized The Center Won't Hold, feathers were promptly ruf...
After the 2019 departure of longtime member Janet Weiss—an absolute monster drummer and fixture on every Sleater-Kinney record since 1997’s breakthrough third album "Dig Me Out"—just a month before the release of that year’s St. Vincent-produced "The Center Won’t Hold" (a record which Weiss is credited for, but barely plays on), the trio was reduced to the duo of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein.
Sleater-Kinney’s second act has proved to be a chapter of fulfillment. Long regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of their generation,
(Mom + Pop)<br>The band’s first album as a duo gets back to glowering-rock fundamentals – but does it chime with the mood of the times?
Despite all the guitar solos and silly riffs, Path of Wellness is an uncharacteristically meh Sleater-Kinney album
Path Of Wellness by Sleater-Kinney album review by Adam Fink. The Full-length comes out on June 11 2021 via Mom+Pop Music