On November 1, Sleater-Kinney will be releasing a deluxe edition of their latest album, Little Rope. The second single to be shared from that expanded project is “This Time,” which is one of the final songs to be cut from the original version. The track glimmers with keyboard chords and muted percussion. Eventually, the tune kicks into a double-time groove pushed by post-punk guitar licks, 16th note hi-hat rhythms, and a perfectly placed tambourine.
“‘This Time’ was the last song we wrote for the record and the last to get cut once we decided we preferred the evenness and succinctness of 10 songs,” the band shared. “About a person reaching the limits of denial, ‘This Time’ exists on the thematic edges of Little Rope, an album wrestling with loss and its aftermath.”
Check out the new song below, and pre-order the deluxe edition of Little Rope here.
