And the Greetings Podpickers and welcome to another edition of Soda Jaker on songwriting. I'm Simon

joined as always by my indomitable co-host Brian and with us for episode 261

is a much celebrated hugely influential American indie rock duo who first emerged

from the mid-90s Pacific Northwest punk scene quickly cementing themselves as

beacons of the Riot Girl movement. As this episode reaches you they recently dropped their excellent 11th studio album, Little Rope,

recorded in Portland, Oregon with John Congleton producing.

We're delighted to welcome Slater Kenny's Corin Tooker and Carrie Brownstein to the show.

The new record really is terrific isn't it?

It is, I've been playing it a lot actually.

And it was made in the most trying of personal circumstances too wasn't it?

It was which seems to lend it an extra emotional weight I think.

Yeah I mean just to provide some context they'd not long begun recording the album

when Carrie's moment's stepdad suddenly passed the way.

Yeah I think anyone could be forgiven for simply downing tools indefinitely in that situation

but to their credit they chose to continue and the results is a really fine piece of work.

Absolutely.

Pennsylvania-born Corrin and Seattle native Carrie first met at a gig in Bellingham, Washington in

1992 and formed Slater Kinney in 1994 taking their name from an intersection in the

Olympia suburb of Lacey.

Corin was a member of Heaven's Tibeti at the time while Carrie was playing a trade in

Excuse 17 and the two groups regularly played together.

Slator Kinney was initially a side project for the pair,

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