I love this album.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 3 March 2018 06:35 (six years ago) link
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
― bunny slopes, Saturday, 3 March 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
Good Morning!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
WAIT IN THE CAR. I'VE GOT BUSINESS.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 3 March 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
MetaGoth is such a Pixies song
― alpine static, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
I dunno, it slots right in beside “Roi” in my mental Rolodex
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
I listened to this album in the car on the way to Cheapo, and they were playing it there too. It's everywhere!
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 4 March 2018 07:27 (six years ago) link
"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
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
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
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
hittin' home runsand line driveswith the sun in their eyes
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
yeah this is really good, remarkably so. i am surprised by how good this is for some reason. don't know what i was expecting.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
everyone on this thread is talking about how great this album is, how it rules, how it's really good, but no one is really elaborating on why they think this. what's great about it? MatthewK did a nice job upthread describing why he thinks Title TK is worth listening to (and I agree), but no one seems to have anything interesting to say about this record, which is just confirming my suspicion that this record just isn't interesting
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
in my defence, I don't have anything interesting to say about any music.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
XpostApart from “zero hooks” (to which my thoroughly thought through reply would be “check again”), there’s not much you’re offering, either.
― willem, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
It's a good album that's not much different from their 2008, 2002, and 1993 albums: spare, gnomic, adept at a certain kind of precision that would make other bands sound amateurish.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
after one listen, iirc:
it *sounded* awesomeKim snarls & sneers a lot, always a plusdrums are killer throughout, very solidgood sequencing, kind of back-loaded
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
― willem, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
Exactly! Well put.― willem, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:58 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
very well put
i will always love rock music even as it continues to be "dead" and irrelevant because at this point in history i don't delude myself that there are great rock revolutions coming, it's about taking joy in how certain musicians play, how combinations of different talents and personal quirks interact when they play together, a certain sound and dynamic.
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
but no one seems to have anything interesting to say about this record
Sorry, I forgot this was a requirement.
Anyway, I'm stealing jed_'s answer.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
I filed 600 words on Saturday, so let's see if it's interesting .
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
i have only listened once--it SOUNDED great and i can't wait to get to know this more. i loved loved wait in the car and the title track
i still think she's the best rock star of the '90s, she best epitomized that decade for me.
― omar little, Tuesday, February 27, 2018 9:40 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and yes, no doubt
― surm, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Interesting things being said here - and it took me a few months to dial in to Title TK so I can’t claim I recognised it at first listen. All their albums have taken time to unfold, except Last Splash which was exciting out of the gate and didn’t last the distance for me. I find quite a few tracks immediately appealing - esp the opening four and Skinhead 2, plus obviously I knew and love Killer, but the more subdued tracks are taking their time, or may not hit, as Mountain Battles never quite did.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
Title TK for me is like their ZEP/Houses of the Holy, but subtler hooks i loved digging for and finding the hooks in college, beauties buried in guitar fuzz
― surm, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
One thing that strikes me about this album is Kim's very very unique sense of vocal melody is on display here. The harmonies with her sister on these extremely unique vocal melodies are intriguing and compelling.
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:58 (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), Tuesday, February 27, 2018 8:20 PM
surm otm
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
thanks!! i've always kind of thought that and just put words to it
― surm, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
also v much agreed kurt
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/03/kim-deal-breeders-misogyny-pixies-cobain-rehab
Good little interview.
You once spoke about how you wished you’d had kids.The broody phase lasted a while. I realised, it’s not going to happen, and that was depressing and sad. But nature takes care of things, because later, I was: “Oh, I’m OK about not having kids.” I just snapped out of it… I do wish that I’d maybe not drunk so much that I couldn’t have organised [having children]. But it’s funny, because everybody my age who had kids, those kids are now about 20, and all I hear about is shit kids who are hungover and smoke pot all day. It was different when I couldn’t have them, and there were all these little babies of precious joy. Now all I hear is: “My kids are driving me crazy!”
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
kim was my first favorite artist tbhshe was like my introduction to musici feel like this happened even before Madonna and Mariah took a place in my hearti will always hold her in that regard, forever like what a career
― surm, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
/emo /vodka /you've heard it all before
― surm, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
That live set on P****fork was decent, a bit more subdued than the club show I went to recently.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
but I was never a stage drinker
gonna call bullshit on that one
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
yeah lol
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
but kim wouldn't lie!
― surm, Thursday, 8 March 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
AMA on reddit in an hour.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
omg! speaking of i just checked reddit and found this comment "omg i can ask them about Off You (the most beautiful song ever written)"which reminded me that i meant to post here that i think a lot of this album is kim investigating that uncanny melody structure from off you
how do AMAs work even
― surm, Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
[–]RimshotSlim 1 point 2 hours ago*
Hey Steve Phelps here from Dayton. I want to know if Jimmy Mac remembers calling me out to fight during a church service while we were acolytes as kids. I remember being surprised (not only because it was during the service) because I really didn’t even know who he was. And what am I supposed to do, tell my parents I’ll need a minute before joining them in the car because I need to go fight this kid? LOL. Great show last Friday, guys. I’m glad I don’t have to avoid Jim later in life because I had to fight him as a child . Have a great tour!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
which reminded me that i meant to post here that i think a lot of this album is kim investigating that uncanny melody structure from off you
this is a good point! this album is very "off you"-esque in general
― na (NA), Thursday, 8 March 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
I wish that was true, because I think "Off You" is fantastic, but the "Dawn..." song is the only one here that comes close imo
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
i had made a loose connection. one thing i like about all nerve is that it sounds p relaxed, especially in contrast with title tk which is such a tense record, with the notable exception of off you.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvas5q0R000
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 9 March 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
YESSSS
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 9 March 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Fabulous freeze frame.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 March 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
Kim Deal has the best smile and a perpetual twinkle in her eye, tbh i get happy just seeing her (that's probably quite relevant to my "best rock star of the '90s" opinion upthread.)
― omar little, Friday, 9 March 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
glad that she seems happy / healthy — there was a time in the early 00s when things seemed kinda dark.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
I saw a solo gig a few yrs ago that was lovably shambling/bonkers, I need to listen to this new one
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
Great short album. They still have got it in them.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 9 March 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
yeah that twinkle is real xxxp
― surm, Monday, 12 March 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
The new record is really good, I also pulled out Title Tk which still blows me away, that album is amazing. Still not sure how I feel about Mountain Battles
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 19 March 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
mountain battles has great songs on it but doesn't quite add up to an album. it's fun
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link