The Breeders - All Nerve (2018)

and it's still good! It's just the one I listen to least.

Yeah Pod is definitely their best

Mentioned on another thread, but I saw them on their recent small club tour and was completely blown away by "Walking With A Killer" (my first time hearing it) and I'm a jaded fuck who rarely gets into new material. They put on a fantastic live show fwiw.

You can buy all of the KD solo series 7" songs via Amazon music and iTunes I think. Makes a GREAT mini album. "Likkle More" destroys me.

I think Deal just might be my favourite songwriter and singer of all time. Hard to think of anyone who's given me more joy.

My challop: Title TK > Pod > Pacer > Mountain Battles > Last Splash

(I hate the overproduction of LS and think it buffed out the ragged charm of the real Deal aesthetic)

Honest, earnest question from me: what exactly do people like about Title TK? I can't figure it out for the life of me. Such a tossed off, songless record.

That's me re Pod!

:O

Look, arguing about the merits of this or that album is futile. The ethos produces a remarkable consistency.

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

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.