The Breeders - All Nerve (2018)

that is really an alternate dreamy universe compared to the breeders directly into the face approach. a little on the cutesy/mellifluous side of things.

cutesy/mellifuous covers most of her 90s stuff - with Ladies Who Lunch and Dusty Trails at either end. cool to see that Jon Mattock is at least involved with this - Honey Tongues and The Josephine Wiggs Experience were both duos of the two of them.

has there ever been a more iconic but awkward fit than the breeders and 4ad/vaughan oliver aesthetics?

The worst was the Last Splash anniversary box set with awful new artwork.

Title TK's cover is fairly blah.

I appreciate that the artwork isn't too easy, but once the novelty faded i haven't been fond of how text/font heavy 4ad's artwork tends to be.

the whole 4ad thing is all very soft-focus, ethereal, sophisticated and british. lots of text and different typefaces like you say whereas i see the band and their music as being very dry, american, suburban and working class or something? even something vaguely contemporaneous like lush worked better with it as they were at least british and their aesthetic sound-lineage from things like the cocteau twins; the obvious analogue to the soft-focus aspect of the 4ad cover style.

i dunno, all those recent self-released kim deal singles have these really "designed", layered image-heavy assemblages on the covers too, so she clearly just likes that stuff and wasn't just stuck with the 4ad house style. just seems

in some ways it kind of works to differentiate them from their time. if all of their covers were standard '90s sebadoh/pavement/gbv-ish collages or that kind of naive anti-photo thing with some scrawled text on it they would blend in more maybe? the presentation being slightly at odds with the content has an interesting way of gilding it or framing it differently.

Good summer for this record

I'm in the mood for them to chuck out another album fairly speedily. Fucking love "All Nerve".

I played it yesterday!

xxp This band has a remarkably ugly set of album covers, IMO

The covers don’t suit the band’s sound for sure.

disagree x2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

except in font/layout/design, definitely fits with the savagely precise music IMO

Walking With A Killer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBwXJkxlPI

love it

Nice video but still getting used to the album version of this as opposed to the first 7" version which was so great.

They don't seem radically different?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NtcXD3cefuA I mean obviously it's the same song but the original version seems more sure of itself to my ears but maybe that's just the one 'heard it first must be best' thing going on

Holy fuck this album

it's so good

Been spinning it a lot lately too - loving Josephine's bass tone, it's thunderous.

Like the first six tracks are fuzzy gold
Spacewoman tho

Also Dawn: Making An Effort
Fuckkkkkkkkk

title track is a perfect example of Kim’s deeply odd but exquisite sensibility, she’s been a top-5 favourite songwriter for me for 30 years

Same
Well 20 for me

Also Dawn: Making An Effort
Fuckkkkkkkkk

― surm, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

It's not on the album but Kim's "are you mine" brings me to tears pretty much every time.

That and "Likkle More". Both about her mom's dementia I believe.

wtf hvnt i hrd either of those songs

All of Kim's solo singles are great. God I wish she would put something new out. All Nerve seems much farther away than two years.

they're from a 7" series that Kim Deal's been releasing for the last 5-6 years... most of 'em are still available on her site:

https://kimdealmusic.com/

O shit

they can also be purchased as mp3s via Amazon music (does that still exist? that's where I bought my digital copies). The five singles make a pretty excellent mini-album.

I'm normally very much more into the rockers than the slow songs w/ The Breeders - going back 25 years - but Dawn Making An Effort is definitely my favorite song on All Nerve.

It is really devastating

90

million

miles

away

GOOD MORNING

staring at their discography and starting to think this is my favorite one

idk if this is my fav breeders album, but "dawn: making an effort" might be my fav breeders song

I'm listening to the whole thing for the first time in several months right now and thinking the same thing.

Last post was an xpost but the drums JUST kicked in on "Dawn" and at least at this moment in time I agree with you 1000%.

Just kind of had my mind blow to see that today was the Deal sisters' 60th birthday.

happy birthday cool sisters

tough kids love
sad songs

Just kind of had my mind blow to see that today was the Deal sisters' 60th birthday.

happy birthday deals but also mods pls delete this post that makes me feel ancient

It's Joey Santiago's birthday today as well, 55 years old

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.