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Product details

  • Audio CD (30 May 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sub Pop
  • ASIN: B0008FPIOU
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 67,875 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Fox
2. Wilderness
3. What's Mine Is Yours
4. Jumpers
5. Modern Girl
6. Entertain
7. Rollercoaster
8. Steep Air
9. Let's Call It Love
10. Night Light

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Amazon.co.uk Review
After its most prolonged absence from the recording studio, Sleater-Kinney has reloaded with a smouldering rock and roll record that rivals John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band and Nirvana’s In Utero in terms of unexpectedness. It is a 180-degree proclamation to the album which came before it. Producer David Fridmann (Weezer, Flaming Lips) coaxed the Portland, Oragan trio to retool its approach to making music. The results are startling and far and away the most collaborative, experimental and risky in the band’s seven-record career. Corin Tucker’s supreme guttural form is on display from the lead-off track "The Fox"--a would-be children’s tale overridden by crunching power chords and drummer Janet Weiss’s battering percussion. The Woods tugs on your ear musically and stabs at your heart lyrically on riff-wielding jaunts "Wilderness," "Modern Girl" and "Rollercoaster." The live-in-one-take, 11-minute blockbuster "Let’s Call It Love" unleashes Carrie Brownstein’s foray into guitar-solo psychedelia. Haven’t heard Sleater-Kinney yet? Try Dig Me Out and work your way forward. Already on board? Find a steady chair, feel your ears bleed and watch your speakers disintegrate. --Scott Holter

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'The Woods' is the seventh studio album from three piece girl group Sleater-Kinney and their first for the legendary Sub Pop label. Produced and recorded by Dave Fridmann (MercuryRev, Flaming Lips) at his New York studios, the album sees the group fine tune their mix of noisy indie rock and 'riot grlll' punk.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, 14 Jun 2005
By Jason Hughes (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
I bought this, my first Sleater-Kinney album, after reading the glowing reviews online and in various magazines. I was expecting something akin to Le Tigre....WRONG!

Imagine Sabbath and Zeppelin with more pop suss and you will nearly have it right. Opener "The Fox" goes down as one of the best album openers of the year - thuggish Bonham-esque drumrolls and a monster bass/guitar fuzz riff. It's followed by the poppier "Wilderness", which echoes various great 60's bands such as Jefferson Airplane. "Jumpers" is another cracker - full-on rock melded with some great harmonies.

My only apprehension about Sleater-Kinney from the reviews was Corin Tucker's vocals - they are a bit like Marmite, but I have to say I love them. Very like Grace Slick on "White Rabbits", but often very restrained and full of emotion. Janet Weiss (drums) and Carrie Brownstein (guitar) are fantastic throughout, culminating on the epic "Let's Call It Love" which starts out with a Zep-esque stomp and mutates after five minutes into a guitar freakout worthy of Mainliner or Acid Mothers Temple before a segue into final track "Night Light".

I have not listened to anything but this since it arrived, and I'm sure it will be firmly esconced in my Top Ten of 2005 list come December. Buy it!

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Seventh Heave for Sleater-Kinney, 27 Jun 2005
Sleater-Kinney just keep getting better and better, and this, their seventh album is no exception. 'The Fox' starts proceedings with rumbling guitars, crashing drums and Corin Tucker's trademark howl delivering the most frightening fairytale you will ever hear: "on the day the duck was born, the fox was watching all along, he said 'land ho!'" And from then on, they never once falter. From the neat-beat garage scuzz of 'Whats Mine Is Yours' to the dance-a-long freak out of 'Jumpers'. From the defiant record industry-slaying 'Entertain' with its marching call-to-arms break in the middle to the eleven minute Led Zep rock out of 'Lets Call It Love' - Sleater-Kinney are firing on all cylinders. The guitar/vocal dual of Tucker and Carrie Brownstein and the thunderous drumming of extraordinare Janet Weiss have never sounded this potent. Sleater-Kinney have never fitted into scenes or genres and are virtually impossible to categorize, but on this record they have truly made some of the most thrilling, astounding, era-defining music of recent years. Why they aren't as big as R.E.M is a mystery to me. Never mind, I'll keep on listening knowing that this is some of the best music ever recorded. And we should be thankful for that, at least.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Album # 7..., 31 May 2006
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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'The Woods' is Sleater-Kinney's seventh album following releases going back over a decade: their eponymous debut, 'Call the Doctor', 'Dig Me Out', 'The Hot Rock', 'One Beat', and 'All Hands on the Bad One' (plus drummer Janet Weiss has played with The Go-Betweens and Quasi). 'The Woods' is quite a departure for the band, who opted to sign to Sub Pop and decided to work with producer David Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Mogwai, the Delgados) who felt that all SK's prior records sounded the same (...you assume production-wise). 'The Woods' finds Sleater-Kinney thoroughly reinvigorated, it has found them a (much deserved) wider audience and even a support slot with Pearl Jam (I was quite shocked to see a photo of Carrie Brownstein with members of Pearl Jam and U2 on their website!).

The album is obviously fantastic, which is probably something I'd say about any S-K album since 'Dig Me Out' - they're clearly much more than the Riot Grrl/Bikini Kill/Olympia-act people have seen them as in the past. Amazing that the line-up remains two-guitars and drums - a sign of how great they are is the fact you don't notice. It has to be said that this is even better live - Brownstein's guitar-playing even wilder sounding like Rowland S. Howard playing Television covering 'Fire Engine'. Yes Carrie kind of plays solos here! Brownstein & principal vocalist/guitarist Corin Tucker have a fantastic guitar interplay going - much better than stuff like Bloc Party, Editors, Interpol & Franz Ferdinand. The album itself sounds like The Birthday Party playing PJ Harvey's 'Rid of Me'...

'The Fox' is the harsh opener, very much in the mode of Pussy Galore, it's fantastic bastardised blues and feedback - a dirge that finds a groove. They've hardly turned into Advil Lasagne! 'Wilderness' taps into their new wave side (apparent since 'Dance Song '97' and 'One Beat'), the song isn't that far from Interpol's 'Evil' - though Corin Tucker's post-Babes in Toyland holler certainly gets the attention. 'What's Mine is Yours' opens with an angular riff drifting from channel to channel before a demon groove comes in - it should be pointed out that Janet Weiss is the greatest drummer around these days (Keith Moon? Grant Hart? Forget about it). Her performance on the live-version of 'Let's Call It Love/Entertain' is the most decimating drum-performance I've heard/seen since Mick Harvey doing 'Sonny's Burning' with The Birthday Party.

Single 'Jumpers' is a more conventional alternative number, Brownstein & Tucker harmonising together a dark wonderful poetry "The sky is blue most every day/The lemons grow like tumours/They are tiny suns/Infused with sour..." Fridmann's production here is closest to the Lips/Rev stuff he's done in the past - though the chorus is most definitely the Sleater-Kinney of yore. & yes another guitar solo (of sorts) - Brownstein's guitar-playing always interesting though, it's not like she's turned into Peter Frampton...'Modern Girl' starts off quietly, reflecting the themes suggested by the title 'The Woods'? , again this mellower side of SK has been suggested since 'Buy Her Candy' (Fridmann gets some lovely FX in the backgroud - there's even a flute noise not far from Vashti Bunyan!). 'Entertain' sets pulses racing once more, Weiss' powerhouse-drumming backing the song which Brownstein initially sings until Tucker comes in. Imagine PJ Harvey times two with the greatest drummer...

The rest of the album is as mindblowing, 'Rollercoaster' and 'Steep Air' feeling like a new band - a lot more laid back and melodic than the full-on Nation of Ulysses rage of yore. The 11-minute epic 'Let's Call It Love' discounts any theory SK have gone MOR - another blues-feeling track that sounds like females tapping into Led Zep at their most primal - it reminds me lots of PJ Harvey circa 'Rid of Me' (before she gothed out).Finally 'Night Light' emanates from the maelstrom of 'Let's Call It Love' , both melodic and raw it makes me wonder where SK will go next. Here's hoping album#8 isn't that far away. A band that gets greater and greater; can we have a live album please?
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