MOG Editorial Review

Sleater-Kinney’s third album, Dig Me Out, might have been released at the tail end of the riot grrrl movement, yet the social, personal, and political themes of the era are all captured perfectly here. Founded by Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein (who have since become respected veterans of the scene), the band never had problems getting their feminist viewpoints across, but with Dig Me Out they also got the sounds right. Their punk energy remained in tact, but Sleater-Kinney approached songwriting in more complex ways than earlier albums. Maybe it was because the first wave of riot grrrl was decidedly over by 1997 that Sleater-Kinney approached this much more confidently and in the end made ferociously good music that crossed the boundaries to become a landmark not only of the scene, but alt-rock in general.