The Breeders - All Nerve (2018)

After much anticipation, The Breeders have announced their new album All Nerve which will be out March 2 via 4AD. It was made with the same lineup that gave us Last Splash and was recorded in Dayton, KY, Chicago and Dayton, OH with Steve Albini, Tom Tastikis, Greg Norman and Mike Montgomery behind the boards. Courtney Barnett and her band guest on “Howl at the Summit” and Breeders bassist Josephine Wiggs sings lead on “MetaGoth.” Graphic designer Chris Bigg, who has worked with The Breeders from the beginning, did the artwork.

1. Nervous Mary
2. Wait in the Car
3. All Nerve
4. MetaGoth
5. Spacewoman
6. Walking with the Killer
7. Howl at the Summit
8. Archangel’s Thunderbird
9. Dawn: Making an Effort
10. Skinhead #2
11. Blues at the Acropolis

really ugly cover
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2018/01/The-Breeders-All-Nerve-album-artwork.jpg

good song titles though

"MetaGoth" is already my favorite song of the year and I haven't heard a note.

OMG AMON DUUL II COVER

^^^ YES ^^^

this...is going to be amazing

Single was underwhelming but I was thinking about “saints” at 3 am last night so yeah, anticipating

was totally down with "Wait in the Car"

holy shit if anyone can do justice to the greatest song ever it's Deal & co

The Lucinda song?

Amon Duul II - "Archangels Thunderbird"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqU4onSjh8

I will NEVER tire of the thrill of a new Deal song. Undiluted.

i really like that

kim really is great — obviously she's well-loved, but I still feel like she's underrated. just a total original.

i still think she's the best rock star of the '90s, she best epitomized that decade for me.

it feels like she's getting more appreciation lately? feeling more of a buzz about this new album than mountain battles e.g.

i am pumped for it and i am happy for any new kim deal music but the amps album is better than any of the breeders albums, right? they're all great but pacer is perfect.

challenging kim deal opinions

i listened to mountain battles today and it sounds better to me now

i agree re pacer. a perfect album.

Last Splash > Pacer > Title TK > Pod > Mountain Battles

this new album is grrrrrreat

xp POD 4TH?!!!?!???

There are challops, AND THEN THERE ARE CHALLOPS!

Pod's my least favorite.

LS > Title TK > Mountain Battles > Pod

I've never been more mad at u

would probably say Pod is my fave. hard to pick, though ...

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)?

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.

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?