No Cities to Love is the eighth studio album by Sleater-Kinney and the first after a decade long hiatus since 2005's The Woods. The album was released on January 20, 2015. The album was recorded in secret mostly at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco, with additional sessions at Electrokitty in Seattle and Kung Fu Bakery in Portland. It was produced by John Goodmanson. On December 22, 2014, No Cities to Love was accidentally streamed three weeks early by the band's label, Sub Pop. As of December 2014, a 41-date North American/European tour is scheduled for the album's release, winding up in Seattle in May 2015. Before the album was even released, the Los Angeles Times critic Randall Roberts said "the work commands attention", and the Chicago Tribune listed the tour as one of the winter's top rock shows. Jon Pareles writing for The New York Times called it "the first great album of 2015", full of "hurtling, bristling, densely packed, white-knuckled songs that are all taut construction and ...