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Product Description The hotly-awaited fourth album produced, recorded and mixed by Roger Moutenot, who focuses the band's energy on their unrivaled blend of rock and roll elements and pure fire girl punk. Amazon.com It's a general rule in the music industry that the faster you rise to stardom, the faster you slide into oblivion. In the terrifyingly fickle world of rock criticism, the high acclaim that met Sleater-Kinney's first two albums would indicate that only simple neglect was due to them upon the release of The Hot Rock. But the women of Sleater-Kinney continue to defy the norms of rock & roll with an album of such distinctive graces that it approaches the status of classic. In each of the album's 13 tracks, the band's development from fierce grrrls to musical icons rings out loud and clear. The guitar work of Carrie Brownstein has never been more provocative and exact, summoning up the wiry deftness of 's Tom Verlaine. Her "Burn, Don't Freeze" has a dry, discordant guitar line that weaves itself between the dueling vocals of both singers. The signature scorch of Corin Tucker's singing now modulates between the soft calls of the slow dance "A Quarter to Three" and the nuclear blast of the antitechnology "God Is a Number." The larger-than-life "The End of You" showcases the finest work from Brownstein, Tucker, and drummer Janet Weiss. As befitting its nautical themes, the song is oceanic and mercurial, gliding through its movements with all the drama of the mutiny it describes. The Hot Rock is exactly like the diamond of the title--hard, beautiful, and full of mysterious allure. --Lois Maffeo Review What's hard to get used to here, and what's also freshest and perhaps best, is how Corin and Carrie's voices intertwine--even reading the booklet it s hard to keep track of who's saying what to whom about what, as if they d fallen in love with (or to) the Velvets' ''Murder Mystery.'' Not that meanings would be crystalline in any case, or that they should be. With Cadallaca an outlet for Corin s girlish ways, S-K emerges as a diary of adulthood in all its encroaching intricacy. I mean, the guitars don t crunch like they used to either, and that s the very reason ''Get Up'' sounds like death and desire at the same time. The reason ''The Size of Our Love'' sounds like death, on the other hand, is that sometimes love is death. Nobody ever said maturity would be fun and games. --Robert Christgau It's way too easy to anoint Sleater-Kinney the savior of rock 'n' roll, as many have since the band s self-titled debut CD came out in 1995: After all, the all-woman trio has energy, chops, and hooks; delivers its virtually cliché-free lyrics with intensity and an unmistakable (and strangely Belinda Carlisle-esque) vocal style; and possesses an all-ages-only, independent approach to touring. But all that critical adulation fed by the fact that the group is a pretty safe pick politically means there'll likely be a big backlash the moment it missteps. Fortunately, that moment is nowhere near Sleater-Kinney s marvelous fourth album, The Hot Rock, which squeezes in numerous awesome, ''Dig Me Out''-style anthems (''The End Of You''), a Go-Go s-esque pop song (''Banned From The End Of The World''), a jarringly intimate ballad (''The Size Of Our Love''), and loads of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein s increasingly flashy guitar work. At times, The Hot Rocklacks the blaze-of-glory freshness of its justly acclaimed predecessors a few tracks, such as ''Burn, Don t Freeze'' and the single ''Get Up,'' don t quite click but it s a mostly spectacular record for a band that hasn t delivered much else in its young career. Much is made of Sleater-Kinney s politics, gender, sexuality, feminism, and adherence to its punk-rock ideals, but The Hot Rock works just fine on its own as a terrific, explosive, and fun rock record. --The Onion A.V. Club The last album, 'Dig Me Out', was the ace but rough-as-a-bear's A, post-riot grrrl album Huggy Bear co
