Sleater-Kinney have revealed “Here Today,” an outtake from their recent album Little Rope.
The track is a meditative rocker that contemplates the brevity of life. It’s paired with a black-and-white video of Los Angeles guerrilla projections — made by activist art collective In Decline — as the lyrics flash across the screen: “You are on the dirty streets/While I sit on heated seats/Pretend we’re not both occupants/Of a world that’s gone insane.”
“We’re excited to share ‘Here Today’ with you,” Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker said in a statement. “It’s a song we recorded during the Little Rope sessions. It’s an earnest song about our brief time here on earth, and where to find meaning in it.”
Little Rope Deluxe arrives on Oct. 4 via Loma Vista Recordings. In addition to “Here Today,” it contains two other new tracks, as well as live versions from The Forum in Melbourne.
Little Rope, the band’s 11th album, was released in January, and subsequently featured on Rolling Stone‘s Best Albums of 2024 So Far. It marks the second record without drummer Janet Weiss, who left the band in 2019. They followed that up with the EP Frayed Rope Sessions, which they dropped in March.
Last fall, Brownstein and Tucker spoke with Rolling Stone about Little Rope, an album that was created during a time of tragedy and grief, as Brownstein lost her mother and stepfather in a deadly car crash.
“This album, to me, signals the next era of Sleater-Kinney,” Brownstein told us. “It feels like a reclamation of all that I love about playing music with Corin. And so, I’m going to be very careful with that and try to enjoy it, because you don’t know when it could end.”
Little Rope Deluxe Track List:
Disc 1:
1. Hell
2. Needlessly Wild
3. Say It Like You Mean It
4. Hunt You Down
5. Small Finds
6. Don’t Feel Right
7. Six Mistakes
8. Crusader
9. Dress Yourself
10. Untidy Creature
Disc 2:
1. This Time
2. Here Today
3. Nothing to Lose
4. Hell – Live
5. Say It Like You Mean It – Live
6. Needlessly Wild – Live
7. Say It Like You Mean – Frayed Version
8. Hunt You Down – Frayed Version
9. Untidy Creature – Frayed Version