The Breeders - All Nerve (2018)

http://4ad.com/news/891

All of the Breeders’ previous albums – Pod, Last Splash, Title TK, and Mountain Battles – will be re-issued on vinyl on 18th May. Available to pre-order from today, this is the first time Pod and Last Splash will be released by 4AD in North America.

The looks on Kelley's face playing "Off You" from sheet music are hilarious.

Tiny Desk made my day thanks

For people that care about such things: They are selling copies of Title TK at their shows that have the original vinyl cover (different from CD art). It looks like the reissue will change the vinyl artwork to be the same as the CD art.

Have we talked about how great their cover of Gates of Steel is? Because it is.

Have we talked about how great their cover of Gates of Steel is? Because it is.

― Cow_Art, Friday, April 27, 2018 5:08 PM (one hour ago)

YSI?

Got it on vinyl. Looked around for a digital copy but couldn't find one.

Not even on youtube, it looks like. The Mike Nesmith cover, "Joanne" is there though and it's very nice.

Gates of Steel and Joanne are on the Japanese CD release. Gimme your email for a YSI.

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Excited to see them tonight.

Jealous en

Hope they play gigantic for ya

They have every other night so far at recent shows :).

What ya wanna hear??

Ohhh enjoy E.!

Report back

Will do :)

good show in chicago last night. highlight for me was during the opening set by awesome local band melkbelly, who are apparently opening for most/all of the tour, i'm 90% sure one of the deal sisters sang back-up on a song from backstage.

set list was fairly predictable but i was pleasantly surprised they did "safari"

I really liked Melkbelly!

"Spacewoman" is the best song ever.

(So are like 10 other Breeders songs fwiw)

On first listen, I didn't think much to it. A couple of further listens I love every song on it.

I won’t stop!!!!

Dawn: Making an Effort is the highlight imo

^ YES. One of their best songs ever.

I love that one, but it's seriously difficult for me to pick just one highlight.

I feel like no one ever talks about how strange and abstract Deal's lyrics are. they're not Pavement-level wordplay but they have a very cut-up stream-of-consciousness kind of thing going on, so 90s indie

Absolutely

Dawn: Making an Effort is the highlight imo

Id go so far to say that the Howl > AT > Dawn sequence makes the album

(Ok I already posted that)

agreed about Dawn, my fav on the album along with Nervous Mary, I think.

my favorite single moment is still *riffage* "good morning!"

otm that is always thrilling

I GOT BUSINESS

TAKIN' A NAP, CUZ STRATEGY'S FOR PUNKS

(Ok I already posted that)

― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money),

keep saying it imo

"walking with a killer" is an instant kim deal classic to me, so creepy and sad and pretty

^^^

I feel like no one ever talks about how strange and abstract Deal's lyrics are. they're not Pavement-level wordplay but they have a very cut-up stream-of-consciousness kind of thing going on, so 90s indie

― Οὖτις, Thursday, May 31, 2018 2:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She's a great lyric writer, this line from "Skinhead #2"has been killing me lately "I need spit /To crush these beetles on my lips"

This is fast becoming one of my favourite albums from this year.

I've been having a curious "4ad phase" that I can't really explain beyond wondering if I'm having a mid-life crisis. Anyway, on a week away in the Kent seaside town of Whitstable, I was motivated to pick up "All Nerve". The record shop lady seemed really pleased though perhaps she looks like this with every sale. I'm at my happiest writing holiday postcards, half-way down a bottle of red. Some of them said "I've bought a Breeders album in 2018, which seems like such an odd thing to have done."

Anyway, that NPR concert is curiously life affirming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVk4xRdD5MA

Still one of the best albums of the year

otm

Yep, I'd agree. Strangely, if I'd not heard it/been in the Breeders zone and I'd have seen it in anyone's end of year list, I would have thought it the most ridiculous thing ever.

"Director: Richard Ayoade"

just saw them live, they looked like they were having a lot of fun... the crowd was going nuts! awesome set, split mostly between the new album and last splash, with a handful of songs from pod and also all those middle albums I don't have.