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 Mary2. Wait in the Car3. All Nerve4. MetaGoth5. Spacewoman6. Walking with the Killer7. Howl at the Summit8. Archangel’s Thunderbird9. Dawn: Making an Effort10. Skinhead #211. Blues at the Acropolis
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
really ugly coverhttp://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2018/01/The-Breeders-All-Nerve-album-artwork.jpg
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
good song titles though
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
"MetaGoth" is already my favorite song of the year and I haven't heard a note.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
OMG AMON DUUL II COVER
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
^^^ YES ^^^
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
this...is going to be amazing
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
Single was underwhelming but I was thinking about “saints” at 3 am last night so yeah, anticipating
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
was totally down with "Wait in the Car"
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
holy shit if anyone can do justice to the greatest song ever it's Deal & co
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
The Lucinda song?
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
Amon Duul II - "Archangels Thunderbird"
― sleeve, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqU4onSjh8
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
I will NEVER tire of the thrill of a new Deal song. Undiluted.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
i really like that
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
kim really is great — obviously she's well-loved, but I still feel like she's underrated. just a total original.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
i still think she's the best rock star of the '90s, she best epitomized that decade for me.
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
challenging kim deal opinions
i listened to mountain battles today and it sounds better to me now
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
i agree re pacer. a perfect album.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
Last Splash > Pacer > Title TK > Pod > Mountain Battles
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
this new album is grrrrrreat
― alpine static, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
xp POD 4TH?!!!?!???
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
There are challops, AND THEN THERE ARE CHALLOPS!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
Pod's my least favorite.
LS > Title TK > Mountain Battles > Pod
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
I've never been more mad at u
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
would probably say Pod is my fave. hard to pick, though ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
and it's still good! It's just the one I listen to least.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
Yeah Pod is definitely their best
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
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)
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
That's me re Pod!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
:O
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
Look, arguing about the merits of this or that album is futile. The ethos produces a remarkable consistency.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
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.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
Pod, Pacer >>>>>>>>
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
Hm, 16 years ago? Make that 300 times at least, I guess!
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
Pod and the Kim Deal 7"s MattK referred to (as an album) are truly unfuckwithable.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
It helps that Title TK was stuck in my car CD player for a year before fixing it. I can hum every note.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
I love Title TK, the production is perfect, layered and weird but distinctly garage-y in the Deal way.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
Nothing with "Little Fury" can be called songless
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 05:34 (six years ago) link
Or Off You or Too Alive or
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
"Dawn: Making an Effort." WOW.
― J. Sam, Friday, 2 March 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
I love this whole album.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 March 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 2 March 2018 06:33 (six years ago) link
The Josephine Wiggs co-writes are bringing the muscle, playing this loud on a decent system now.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 2 March 2018 07:45 (six years ago) link
which ones did she co-write (besides, i assume, MetaGoth)?
― alpine static, Friday, 2 March 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
I played it yesterday!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 June 2019 20:02 (five 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 (five years ago) link
The covers don’t suit the band’s sound for sure.
― bendy, Monday, 24 June 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link
disagree x2
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 24 June 2019 03:01 (five 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 (five 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 (four years ago) link
it's so good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 21 September 2020 22:52 (four 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 (four years ago) link
Like the first six tracks are fuzzy goldSpacewoman tho
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
Also Dawn: Making An EffortFuckkkkkkkkk
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 19:02 (four 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 (four years ago) link
SameWell 20 for me
― surm, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:23 (four 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 (four 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 (three years ago) link
GOOD MORNING
― Left, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:35 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
I'm listening to the whole thing for the first time in several months right now and thinking the same thing.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
happy birthday cool sisters
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
tough kids lovesad songs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
happy birthday deals but also mods pls delete this post that makes me feel ancient
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
It's Joey Santiago's birthday today as well, 55 years old
― nate woolls, Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
Title TK forever but All Nerve is casual majesty, the years will not diminish them
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
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.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
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.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 11 June 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
I love “MetaGoth” so much. Crazy to imagine where this iteration of the band would’ve gone post-LS if they’d held together.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 24 August 2024 03:57 (one month ago) link
And what about that earth shattering bass tone on Skinhead #2. A band that just do not decline.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 24 August 2024 12:47 (one month ago) link
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/
― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 15:44 (four weeks ago) link
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.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 15:59 (four weeks ago) link
omg this song is dope
― ivy., Wednesday, 28 August 2024 17:01 (four weeks ago) link
yeah it is great. kind of 'all nerve' if recorded by 154-era wire?
― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 17:31 (four weeks ago) link
loved those 2013 singles, basically treated them like an album. cool to see Are You Mine / Wish I Was show up again.
― moral ziosk (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 17:40 (four weeks ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 20:36 (four weeks ago) link
Coast is lovely, but it's also something off Parallel Lines, right?
― kraudive, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 20:42 (four weeks ago) link