Saw The Breeders Last Night
 

They were great! It was the first stop on their tour for the new album, so I was worried that they might not have had all the songs ready to go yet, but the whole set sounded really fantastic. They joked a lot about how it was the very first time a lot of the songs had ever been played live. I haven't heard any of the new album though, so I was there for the classics, and there were plenty. They played Doe, Saints, Iris, Cannonball (of course!), Divine Hammer (my favorite song of theirs), their great cover of Happiness is a Warm Gun, and some others. I was particularly impressed with how great Kim and Kelly's voices still sound. Anyway, it was a really good show, and the Deal sisters seemed to be having a lot fun.

Here's some pictures my friend took for his website:

 

 

 

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Fucking Awesome ! I can't wait to see them this summer. The new record sounds like it will be fantastic

 

 

sweet

im really not convinced of their new album. its good in places but maybe i need to listen to it more. mind you i didnt rate title tk either.....

This sounds awesome. It's makes a bigger case for me to drive 6 hours to see them possibly.

No Aloha??

I fucking love Kim Deal, and I fucking love what she did when she was with the Pixies, and I fucking love Pod.

I haven't cared much for anything she's done since, unfortunately.

Yeah, they played No Aloha too.

Was that Tonya Donnely playing with them?

"Take Your Hatt off boy!"

Nope. She hasn't been with them for a while I think.

tanya wasnt even on the last spash was she? she was pod and thats all. belly tookn over her life then!

the new album is AWFUL.

^^^ and that's coming from someone who defended title tk!

Ha ha ha....I still need to hear it. Not expecting much!!

should i go see them? i dont know anyhting but the last splash? should i?

Last Splash is one of my favorite albums of the 90's. I still have my furry motorcycle helmet Breeders shirt!!

New album is phenomenal. But if you want another Last Splash (or even Title TK), you will be disappointed. If you want something that feels personal, arty (yet totally lacking pretense), experimental and groovy for a late night chill session, this is the album for you. Kim's dedication to *not* sounding overproduced, *not* sounding like she's trying too hard, etc., can be a lot for some people to stomach, but if you get it you get it, and that's all she cares about. My favorites are "Night of Joy," "Spark," "Walk it off," but they're all great, and the track order and "calculated randomness" (Walk it off followed by Regalame esta noche and then Here no more)?--brilliant.

What? NO ONE wants another Last Splash or Title TK. The only thing the Breeders have done that's decent is the overrated "Pod". This new album is terrible, it has like 2 okay songs, it sounds like a joke. Glad you like it, but wow it's bad. If you really like it, I dare you to listen to the second track on repeat for an hour.

cool photos
I should be seeing them in June, can't waitt

if you listen to any song on repeat for an hour it'd be shit.


What a bizzare thing to say

haha, nice review!

I can think of a million songs I'd like to play on repeat for hours. How is that a bizarre thing to say?

i cant think of a single song i'd like to listen to on repeat for an hour. It'd get boring surley? Unless its a longer song, in which case you'd only hear like 3 times, so it wouldn't be so bad. But for a 3/4 min song no.


Its a bizarre thing to say because the guy obviously likes the album, he said so. So why does putting a song on repeat for an hour have anything to do with the album? It'd mean something for that song, but like i said it'd get dull whatever the song was.
But you knew what i meant

Okay, my point is, track two is one of the worst songs ever made. The end.

If you think I'm crazy for liking the new Breeders, check this out: I am in LOVE with the Magik Markers album (especially track 3). It took me months of periodically putting the album in, going "ehh, what the hell is this?" until one night everything clicked. There is so much hidden meaning in that album, from the "making & performing art for one's self/making & performing art for others (and then is it really authentic?)" conundrum hinted at in track 3, to the literary references in "Harry Angstrom" (and her empowered retort in the final track: "This is a circle!"). So my point is, just because you don't "get" something, or it doesn't do anything for you, doesn't mean it's bad. There's tons of well-respected bands that I just can't get into (like Wilco), but it's just a matter of what personally moves me. The new Breeders album DOES sound kind of like a joke in spots, and I guess that's part of why I like it so much. Every time I hear "German Studies," it gets funnier and funnier, cause I just picture Kim and Kelley in the basement, goofing around in faux German accents, and totally butchering the language. "Istanbul" is kind of the same--they weren't *really* trying to make a serious song about an exotic location, they were just having fun, seeing how far they could take a random idea (this one presumably about doing drugs and/or changing your state of mind ("..it's not far/it's here/it's where you are"). To me, this album is kind of like a Breeders version of Deerhoof's "Friend Opportunity," except instead of being more accessible than their previous efforts, it's less. But it's just this random, fuzzy patchwork of oddball idiosynchrasies, which to me is a much more interesting portrait of an artist

Hey man whatever you find interesting... I think it's awful personally, but I know there's a fanbase for it. I guess that's why I mentioned TITLE TK above. I loved that album -- something about the darkness and sparseness of a lot of the songs (especially "Off You")... a lot of people hated it, but yeah.

Good response to me, btw, most people respond with "FUCK YOU YOU IDIOT BLAH BLAH YOU INSULTED MY INDIE SACRED CROW!"

fair enough!

I love Title TK for the reasons you mentioned, it sounds really minimal and basic, but also Human (maybe because its recorded in Analogue?)

I love Kim's sense of humour too. Its something that is missing from alot of bands

I'm seeing them tomorrow!

I'm seeing them Thursday!

I was actually just watching bits of this dutch documentary on the Breeders. Basically just Kim and Kelly talking about the band and themselves. Really entertaining since they're so cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cxutc5oLTg

Right on! I hope they play Oh! for me.

Yeah, I remember that documentary. They seem beyond cool to me.

haha i like tittle tk tooo