The Breeders - All Nerve (2018)

JF - I don't know what to say to you except that the writing on that record is better than any other of the albums. The songs are loose and sketchy, they ride the tension between pop sweetness and chaos so perfectly that I never tire of them. It's the thing Deal does better than anyone else I've heard (maybe Bob Pollard gets there but his hit:miss ratio is lower, plus he doesn't have THAT VOICE). "London Song" I have probably listened to a hundred times, it never fails to raise the hair on the back of my neck and feels like pure energy. If you don't feel it you don't, I guess, but it took me maybe a year to fully dial into its wavelength and it's just kept giving since then.

Pod, Pacer >>>>>>>>

Hm, 16 years ago? Make that 300 times at least, I guess!

Pod and the Kim Deal 7"s MattK referred to (as an album) are truly unfuckwithable.

It helps that Title TK was stuck in my car CD player for a year before fixing it. I can hum every note.

xps That's what I get from songs like "Oh!" and "Iris" and basically the entirety of Pod and don't get at all from anything on Title TK, but it's not you who needs to be sold on the virtues of Pod (it's your #2).

I mean, agree to disagree and whatnot, and I feign a lot of confusion and outrage on this board just for the sake of comedy, but this is a thing I am legit confused by out in the real world.

I love Title TK, the production is perfect, layered and weird but distinctly garage-y in the Deal way.

Nothing with "Little Fury" can be called songless

Or Off You or Too Alive or

"Dawn: Making an Effort." WOW.

I love this whole album.

Thank you for reminding me, to my surprise my local CD store had the physical disc on release date! Got there with 10 minutes to spare, about to hit the car which is one of my few remaining disc players.

The Josephine Wiggs co-writes are bringing the muscle, playing this loud on a decent system now.

which ones did she co-write (besides, i assume, MetaGoth)?

and Skinhead #2

I had no idea she was back. delighted about that.

this is the Last Splash lineup jed!

yes!

Bass so heavy.

this is a great record.

who produced this? It's HEAVY.

Self produced but I think albini is semi involved?

only 3 songs I think? I haven't listened to it yet. but I was thinking about Pod the other day and how heavy the drums are on it. I suppose that's typical Albini production and just how In Utero is recorded etc but he's so good at that

"I need spit/to crush these beetles on my lips" is divine.

It's crazy how "Archangel's Thunderbird" just sounds like another Breeders song.

it sounds so WILD and cray though. I'm not sure it does sound like another breeders song. It doesn't to me. I mean obviously, the end product does!

I'm drunk!

oh man I gotta hear this

Self produced but I think albini is semi involved?

― tylerw, F

one song -- the cover

Great album, great listen, a great birthday gift.

Yeah this is seriously so good.

wait they cover amon duul ii??

yes and it rules

I love this album.

Oooh baby, this is a helluva Breeders album

I played it three times in a row this afternoon, can't get enough. Especially love "Dawn: Making an Effort" which is not really the kind of song I come to the Breeders for but man they pull it off

Good Morning!

WAIT IN THE CAR. I'VE GOT BUSINESS.

MetaGoth is such a Pixies song

I dunno, it slots right in beside “Roi” in my mental Rolodex

I listened to this album in the car on the way to Cheapo, and they were playing it there too. It's everywhere!

"Dawn: Making an Effort" is the only tune on here I like, and I had to listen to this album four times in a row yesterday while my record shop-owning pal tried to "Beta Band it" (his phrase) in his store

He didn't end up selling any and I'm not surprised. I think you've all been listening to a different album than I did. There are zero hooks on this thing.

also, horrid cover art / design. Enough with the 4AD boilerplate already!

For the record, I really liked Title TK (and I love Pod and Last Splash).

Sorry to be the lone voice of dissent here, but this album does absolutely nothing for me

Not a voice of dissent, but I have mixed feelings about this album, which I dont feel like elaborating here. I definitely think "Metagoth" & the one-two punch of AT & Dawn p much make this album

hittin' home runs
and line drives
with the sun in their eyes

yeah this is really good, remarkably so. i am surprised by how good this is for some reason. don't know what i was expecting.

everyone on this thread is talking about how great this album is, how it rules, how it's really good, but no one is really elaborating on why they think this. what's great about it? MatthewK did a nice job upthread describing why he thinks Title TK is worth listening to (and I agree), but no one seems to have anything interesting to say about this record, which is just confirming my suspicion that this record just isn't interesting

in my defence, I don't have anything interesting to say about any music.

Xpost

Apart from “zero hooks” (to which my thoroughly thought through reply would be “check again”), there’s not much you’re offering, either.

It's a good album that's not much different from their 2008, 2002, and 1993 albums: spare, gnomic, adept at a certain kind of precision that would make other bands sound amateurish.

after one listen, iirc:

it *sounded* awesome
Kim snarls & sneers a lot, always a plus
drums are killer throughout, very solid
good sequencing, kind of back-loaded

It's a good album that's not much different from their 2008, 2002, and 1993 albums: spare, gnomic, adept at a certain kind of precision that would make other bands sound amateurish.

It's a good album that's not much different from their 2008, 2002, and 1993 albums: spare, gnomic, adept at a certain kind of precision that would make other bands sound amateurish.

Exactly! Well put.
― willem, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:58 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very well put

i will always love rock music even as it continues to be "dead" and irrelevant because at this point in history i don't delude myself that there are great rock revolutions coming, it's about taking joy in how certain musicians play, how combinations of different talents and personal quirks interact when they play together, a certain sound and dynamic.

Title TK forever but All Nerve is casual majesty, the years will not diminish them

they are one of the few bands I can think of with a pretty flawless run of albums, more so if the Amps record is included.

I love the slurry singing that Kim sometimes does.

I have fantasies of moving to Dayton and being Kim’s handyman so she’ll have more time to work on music. I wish she would put out some more solo singles.

They are my favorite band, but I don’t think I can pick a favorite album of theirs.

I love “MetaGoth” so much. Crazy to imagine where this iteration of the band would’ve gone post-LS if they’d held together.

And what about that earth shattering bass tone on Skinhead #2. A band that just do not decline.

kim deal is releasing her first-ever solo album!
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-breeders-kim-deal-announces-debut-solo-album-shares-new-song-listen/

Not so sure about the new song, Crystal Breath? The electronics are more surprising to me than the horns on Coast. Maybe i'll like it more in the context of the album, but this is probably the least impressed I've been by a Kim song since Bam Thwok. And this is much better than that. Maybe it'll grow on me.

omg this song is dope

yeah it is great. kind of 'all nerve' if recorded by 154-era wire?

loved those 2013 singles, basically treated them like an album. cool to see Are You Mine / Wish I Was show up again.

I love it, there's a '90s thing to it like this is going on a mixtape with some Folk Implosion but it doesn't sound dated.

Coast is lovely, but it's also something off Parallel Lines, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6_rBsjQJFs

Have been holding off ordering in case there were any (for example) Rough Trade only bonus discs etc. Have there been any?