idk all their albums are open-ended and strange and full of hooks. It's impossible for me to explain what separates this from that one.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
I realise I have only said the circumstances in which I heard it and the vague idea that "listening to the Breeders in 2018 seems odd". "Open ended and strange" is part of it: certainly I couldn't really say what many of the less obvious songs are about, even when they resonate with me somehow. Like, I love "All Nerve" and the first half always reminds me of someone specific and the second half doesn't.
― djh, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
I love this album and it's one of my favorites of the year, easily. I'm bummed that it didn't appear on ANY end of year lists, as far I can tell.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
It's turned up on a few lists for sure. The 2018 lists thread may have some of them...
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
a quick search turned up: Mojo and Uncut
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
Heard a little of this for the first time this morning, and it does sound good.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
"listening to the Breeders in 2018 seems odd"
Part of their charm beyond the music is that for a long-running rock band, their history doesn't follow the typical rock band arc in any way. Other than heroin problems. It's as disjointed and compellingly odd as Deal's writing.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 20 December 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
I don't think there's any "comeback" record that made me as happy as this one did
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 December 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
They're all comeback records, kinda!
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 20 December 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
It is my understanding that these songs - at least I think most are - are about Kims experiences dealing with her mothers Dementia. I think she has been looking after her for a while.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
I've heard that said before. I think you could play the album loads and not reach that conclusion (though it does seem likely given what we know).
― djh, Saturday, 22 December 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-breeders-josephine-wiggs-announces-new-album-shares-song-listen/
I realised I've never heard the Josephine Wiggs Experience album. New song is very pretty, reminds me a lot of Hans-Joachim Roedelius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NQSuxIQhk
― willem, Thursday, 21 March 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 21 March 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
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.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 21 March 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
has there ever been a more iconic but awkward fit than the breeders and 4ad/vaughan oliver aesthetics?
― linee, Monday, 8 April 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 8 April 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― linee, Monday, 8 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
Good summer for this record
― surm, Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
I'm in the mood for them to chuck out another album fairly speedily. Fucking love "All Nerve".
― djh, Sunday, 23 June 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
I played it yesterday!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 June 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
xxp This band has a remarkably ugly set of album covers, IMO
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Sunday, 23 June 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
The covers don’t suit the band’s sound for sure.
― bendy, Monday, 24 June 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
disagree x2
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 24 June 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
except in font/layout/design, definitely fits with the savagely precise music IMO
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Monday, 24 June 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
Walking With A Killer video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBwXJkxlPI
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
love it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
Nice video but still getting used to the album version of this as opposed to the first 7" version which was so great.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
They don't seem radically different?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
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
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
Holy fuck this album
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
it's so good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 21 September 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
Been spinning it a lot lately too - loving Josephine's bass tone, it's thunderous.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 21 September 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
Like the first six tracks are fuzzy goldSpacewoman tho
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
Also Dawn: Making An EffortFuckkkkkkkkk
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
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
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
SameWell 20 for me
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
― surm, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
It's not on the album but Kim's "are you mine" brings me to tears pretty much every time.
― Fetchboy, Monday, 28 September 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
That and "Likkle More". Both about her mom's dementia I believe.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 28 September 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
wtf hvnt i hrd either of those songs
― surm, Monday, 28 September 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 28 September 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
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/
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 28 September 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
O shit
― surm, Monday, 28 September 2020 06:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 28 September 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Monday, 28 September 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
It is really devastating
― surm, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
90
million
miles
away
― cwkiii, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
GOOD MORNING
― Left, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
staring at their discography and starting to think this is my favorite one
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
idk if this is my fav breeders album, but "dawn: making an effort" might be my fav breeders song
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link