Big fans of Sleater-Kinney got an early Christmas surprise and a very early pre-order surprise yesterday (Dec. 22).Though the riot grrrl band's highly anticipated comeback album No Cities to Love doesn't have its release date set until Jan. 20, 2014, the band's label, Sub Pop, accidentally leaked the album.
Unlike the Sony Pictures/The Interview debacle, the leakage of No Cities to Love was not an outside attack - it was just a mistake by the label. Sub Pop accidentally made the album available to stream for those who pre-ordered No Cities to Love yesterday for a few hours before realizing its error, Stereogum reports.
Sub Pop was fully able to recognize its mistake and poke a little fun at its error. "We wish we could blame an elite squad of foreign hackers bent on disrupting our meticulously planned release but the truth is we messed up," the label wrote in an email to its customers.
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No Cities to Love has since been pulled from the Internet, but the stream will be available once again on Jan. 13.
Read Sub Pop's full message below:
Hello Mega Mart Customers Who Have Pre-Ordered the New Sleater-Kinney Album!
Please accept our apologies for adding April Fools' to the already overlong list of holidays celebrated in December. When you pre-ordered the Sleater-Kinney album No Cities to Love from our website, you may have read that an advance stream of the album would be made available today, December 22nd. While we have every intention of giving you early access to that stream, the truth is we made an error in granting that access today. We wish we could blame an elite squad of foreign hackers bent on disrupting our meticulously planned release but the truth is we just messed up. We hope you enjoyed your brief holiday taste of this incredible album. We look forward to sharing this album stream with you again on a more permanent basis on January 13th.
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
The Sub Pop Mega Mart
No Cities to Love will be released officially on Jan. 20, 2015, via Sub Pup Records.
