One Beat is the sixth studio album by American rock band Sleater-Kinney. Produced by John Goodmanson, the album was recorded between March and April 2002 at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon. It was released on 20 August 2002 on Kill Rock Stars. The record peaked at number 107 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and entered the Billboard Top Independent Albums at number five. One Beat was well received by critics. Praise centred on its ca...
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One Beat is the sixth studio album by American rock band Sleater-Kinney. Produced by John Goodmanson, the album was recorded between March and April 2002 at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon. It was released on 20 August 2002 on Kill Rock Stars. The record peaked at number 107 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and entered the Billboard Top Independent Albums at number five. One Beat was well received by critics. Praise centred on its cathartic delivery and political polemics.
One Beat is the follow-up to Sleater-Kinney's highly acclaimed fifth album All Hands on the Bad One released in 2000. Before entering the studio, Sleater-Kinney practised in drummer Janet Weiss's basement. The band conceived the album to be "the voice in the silence" following the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on 11 September 2001. Lyricists and guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein did not follow a set blueprint when crafting the songs; rather, they simply worked off each other's input and...
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