Call The Doctor

Description

Sleater-Kinney was an acclaimed, American rock band that formed inOlympia, Washington in 1994. The band’s core lineup consisted of CorinTucker (vocals and guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals), andJanet Weiss (drums). Sleater-Kinney were known for their feminist,left-leaning politics, and were an integral part of the riot grrrl and indierock scenes in the Pacific Northwest.

Call the Doctor is Sleater-Kinneys second studio album. It was producedby John Goodmanson and released on March 25, 1996 by ChainsawRecords. The album is often considered to be Sleater-Kinney’s firstproper album because Tucker and co-vocalist and guitarist CarrieBrownstein left their previous bands, Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17,at the time of its recording. The line-up featured Corin Tucker (vocals,guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar, vocals) and Lora Macfarlane (drums,vocals).Call the Doctor appeared at #3 in The Village Voice’s Pazz& Jop critics’ poll for 1996. In 2010, the album was ranked #49 in the list of the 100 greatest albums of the nineties by the editorsof Rolling Stone.

Trades sex-worker role-playing, doll parts, gender-bending, and othercommon female-rock tropes for stories of everyday struggle […]Sleater-Kinney proves that punk still offers new ways to say no” – JohnnyRay Huston, SPIN

The album has been freshly remastered by Greg Calbi for this release.This reissue coincides with Sub Pops October 21st, 2014 release ofremastered versions of Sleater-Kinneys six other albums, as well as alimited-edition, deluxe vinyl box set featuring all seven albums.

Thedigital versions of these reissues come out via Sub Pop on September2nd, 2014.