Music legends Sleater-Kinney return with a new track called ‘Untidy Creature’. The song is taken from their forthcoming eleventh album Little Rope, landing January 19th via Loma Vista.

The drums of the song are the dominant force with the whirling guitar riffs, and crunchy synth lines all helping to decorate the sonic palette with an eerie haunt.

Sleater-Kinney have also shared an official video to coincide with the single. The Nick Pollet-directed video features Australian Freediving champion Amber Bourke Freediver who lies underneath the water in a bathtub for almost the duration of the song.

In a social media post touching on the single and video, Sleater-Kinney wrote:

“It was the first song we wrote for Little Rope, although we didn’t know it at the time; we weren’t certain we were even working on another record. We also worried it had come too easy, the song featured two elements that come very naturally to Sleater-Kinney: a big guitar riff, an even bigger vocal. But as the year wore on, and our choices and bodily autonomy shrank, our feelings 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. “Untidy Creature” became the album closer, and one of our favorite songs to ever occupy that position.

For the video, we wanted imagery that spoke to the themes which permeate Little Rope: uncertainty, restlessness, urgency, all of the in-between and discomfiting states with which were forced to reckon. 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.”