The Breeders released their last album - Title TK - back in 2002. Since then, of course, Kim Deal has been part of one of the most highly successful and warmly received music reunions of all time, getting back together with the rest of The Pixies for a series of exhilarating live shows in 2004 and 2005. After that, Kim headed back to Dayton, Ohio to start writing a new record.

Mountain Battles is the result. It's an album which captures all the bittersweet electricity of classic Breeders records like Pod and Last Splash, and which breaks new ground at the same time; classic-sounding, yet as relevant and exciting as ever.

Mountain Battles was recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, by Erika Larson at Stagg Street, by Manny Nieto at Manny's Studio, at Refraze in Dayton and by Ben Mumphrey in the Basement.

The band were : Kelley Deal, Kim Deal, José Medeles and Mando Lopez; José and Mando are both veterans of the Title TK campaign.

The Breeders will be playing live all over the world in 2008. Their schedule includes performances at Canadian Music Week and SxSW, plus full tours in the USA and in Europe.

The Breeders are also set to play a UK tour in April to mark the release of the album.

The Mountain Battles tracklisting is :

1. Overglazed
2. Bang On
3. Night Of Joy
4. We're Gonna Rise
5. German Studies
6. Spark
7. Istanbul
8. Walk It Off
9. Regalame Esta Noche
10. Here No More
11. No Way
12. It's The Love
13. Mountain Battles


4AD will release Mountain Battles on Monday 7th April 2008.

They did a terrific show down here in 2003

Theres a new song from this album up on their myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/thebreeders

Good stuff; obviously this is exciting.

Tits, which means awesome.

Sebastian J. wrote:The Breeders released their last album - Title TK - back in 2002. Since then, of course, Kim Deal has been part of one of the most highly successful and warmly received music reunions of all time, getting back together with the rest of The Pixies for a series of exhilarating live shows in 2004 and 2005. After that, Kim headed back to Dayton, Ohio to start writing a new record.

Mountain Battles is the result. It's an album which captures all the bittersweet electricity of classic Breeders records like Pod and Last Splash, and which breaks new ground at the same time; classic-sounding, yet as relevant and exciting as ever.

Well 2 things

1. I saw the Pixies reunion a few years ago, my first time ever seeing the pixies (like 4th time seeing Frank Black do pixies songs)
As much as I heart Kim Deal, I thought the show was very boring. The drummer is especially bad IMO compared to similarly popular bands. I was very underwhelmed. I thought when Frank Black toured the Cult of Ray album, his pixies songs w/ his band were much tighter and more powerful. He rocked the fuck out of some small clubs in SF/CA back then.

Then again it could easily be blamed on the horrible Pixies venue at Berkley, CA in that miserably faux roman outdoor area whatever the fuck its called.

2. I will quote the Dice Man "I made a TV show no one asked for" ... kidding but more to the point..

POD and Last Splash sound like 2 different bands to me. How can you return to that "classic sound" when 1 album POD actually has a classic sound where as Last Splash has a very non distinct sound and a couple of catchy hooks?

Either way I am a breeders mark

When I heard about Title TK originally, my intial reaction was 'meh'. I finally got it around six months later and didn't stop playing it for a whole year. Great record!

I'm going to be all over this one.

Hexpane wrote:POD and Last Splash sound like 2 different bands to me. How can you return to that "classic sound" when 1 album POD actually has a classic sound where as Last Splash has a very non distinct sound and a couple of catchy hooks?

Well really, they were two different bands. Tanya Donnelly and Britt Walford, both of whom played on Pod, were gone when Last Splash was recorded. Both of them lent something distinctive to Pod, Britt especially. Jim MacPherson and Kelley were very different musicians, but Kim remained Kim on Last Splash, and she has a really unique approach to songwriting that still shows on that album.

As far as platinum-selling chart records go, Last Splash is a really wierd and unique record, and while it doesn't match Pod for consistency, it's mostly great, fucked up material. It takes a little unraveling to get how subversive and strange that album really is, and the wierdness tends to be in the least likely places.

Point is, Kim is a total original. I doubt we'll hear the band "return" to anything - she just has a distinctive style, and if that sounds like a throwback to any Breeders period, psh, I'll take it.

Ah, great news from one of my favorite bands - thank you!

Ha ! Ha !!
Some demo songs are available on torrents !

DregsInTheCrowd wrote:As far as platinum-selling chart records go, Last Splash is a really wierd and unique record, and while it doesn't match Pod for consistency, it's mostly great, fucked up material. It takes a little unraveling to get how subversive and strange that album really is, and the wierdness tends to be in the least likely places..

I agree with this: Last Splash is beautifully weird. I think that it is a lot better than Pod.

coceng wrote:Ha ! Ha !!
Some demo songs are available on torrents !

really????