Sleater-Kinney have released the electrifying “Untidy Creature,” the closer from their new album, Little Rope. The project is set to be released on January 19 via Loma Vista Recordings. “The song featured two elements that come very naturally to Sleater-Kinney: a big guitar riff, an even bigger vocal,” the band shared of the single. “But as the year wore on, and our choices and bodily autonomy shrank, our feeling about the song changed. It became a gift, somewhere to put our darkest fears, and our deepest hopes. We sometimes feel trapped or angry, and yet still we breathe.”
The song’s one-shot music video, directed by Nick Pollet, features celebrated Australian freediver Amber Bourke holding her breath underwater for the song’s three-and-a-half-minute duration. ”[W]e wanted imagery that spoke to the themes which permeate Little Rope: uncertainty, restlessness, urgency, all of the in-between and discomfiting states with which we’re forced to reckon,” they added. “So, we came up with the idea of a woman holding her breath in a bathtub for the duration of the song, unsure of her motivations, not knowing whether she’s seeking escape, disappearance, absolution, or simply a moment of quiet and reprieve. We love the tension created by an act that defies both custom and comfort.”
Check out the visual below, and pre-order Little Rope here.
