New Track: St Vincent and Sleater-Kinney Team Up For 'Hurry On Home'
Tristan Young @talltristan
As far as dream teams go it’s harder to imagine something more electrifying than a Sleater-Kinney and St Vincent combo. The alt titans of their respective genres have teamed up for “Hurry On Home” from SK’s up coming album and it’s a damn banger. This is no stunt casting or waisted synergetic potential either, right from get go you can sense St Vincent’s mark on SK’s aesthetic. Shrill and evocative howls ring with gospel and gaudy fever leading into a sharply motorized guitar hook. As is to be expected, Corin Tucker’s vocals are as enthralling as ever. From the opening lines, she articulates her words with guttural dips, exasperated growls, terse choke points, and tormented elongations. She leans heavily into her trademark idiosyncrasies with an almost baroque delivery when she chants, “you know I’m unfuckable, unlovable, unlistenable, unwatchable”. After several sequences of Tucker’s immolating candor those raving howls return and seem even more strikingly distinctive. Their boldly odd revere flares even brighter layered underneath the rueful guitar. St Vincent makes her influence known again as Tucker’s outro is an assembled lyrical speed hook that could have been lifted from MASSEDUCTION. “Hurry On Home” sounds just different enough from SK to be a worthy experiment, but still a great hype machine for their next album. Color us excited. Weird cover art though. Again, very St Vincent.