Album review: The Breeders
The Breeders
Mountain Battles
Label: 4AD
Website: www.4ad.com/breeders
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Every true indie fan has a place in their heart for Kim Deal. Without her steady no-nonsense bass lines and half-vulnerable, half-steely vocals, The Pixies just wouldn’t have been the same.
With The Breeders, Deal showed she could front a band just as well. With this, their first record since 2002’s Title TK, The Breeders have returned to show us just what alternative music should be.
Poppy, defiant, unconventional, raucous and clever, Mountain Battles is fresher and much, much better than you might have expected.
It’s The Love is a toe-tapping triumph and serves to remind us why Kim Deal was Kurt Cobain’s favourite Pixie while German Studies is surely the best German-language song since 99 Luftballons.
Here No More is gorgeous Americana folk that, although different from the typical Breeders sound, is both beautiful and haunting. Istanbul, with its exotic syncopation and alternately sinuous and declarative vocals is like auditory ambrosia. Regalame Esta Noche (a cover) is a fabulous, twinkling Spanish Harlem prom night confection, all satin pillows and heartache.
Mountain Battles is a great record and one that proves that Kim Deal is more than just the ex-bassist of the Pixies, more than just part of music’s history, resigned to the past.
She’s a bona fide legend, a talented songwriter with bags more imagination, inventiveness and playfulness than most of her successors or contemporaries.
Mountain Battles
Label: 4AD
Website: www.4ad.com/breeders
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Every true indie fan has a place in their heart for Kim Deal. Without her steady no-nonsense bass lines and half-vulnerable, half-steely vocals, The Pixies just wouldn’t have been the same.
With The Breeders, Deal showed she could front a band just as well. With this, their first record since 2002’s Title TK, The Breeders have returned to show us just what alternative music should be.
Poppy, defiant, unconventional, raucous and clever, Mountain Battles is fresher and much, much better than you might have expected.
It’s The Love is a toe-tapping triumph and serves to remind us why Kim Deal was Kurt Cobain’s favourite Pixie while German Studies is surely the best German-language song since 99 Luftballons.
Here No More is gorgeous Americana folk that, although different from the typical Breeders sound, is both beautiful and haunting. Istanbul, with its exotic syncopation and alternately sinuous and declarative vocals is like auditory ambrosia. Regalame Esta Noche (a cover) is a fabulous, twinkling Spanish Harlem prom night confection, all satin pillows and heartache.
Mountain Battles is a great record and one that proves that Kim Deal is more than just the ex-bassist of the Pixies, more than just part of music’s history, resigned to the past.
She’s a bona fide legend, a talented songwriter with bags more imagination, inventiveness and playfulness than most of her successors or contemporaries.
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