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Nobody Loves You More
Boomkat Product Review:
Kim Deal's long-awaited proper solo album is a late-career masterstroke, all candid and intimate material, but draped in lavish orchestral flourishes and canny nods to US pop history that pull us confidently away from her beloved canon.
Trust Deal to give us the ultimate fake-out while introducing a solo full-length we've been waiting on for decades. The first single, 'Coast', is the album's most mischievous, a wobbly wedding band flashback that seems to interpolate Blondie as Deal casts her mind back to a Massachusetts vacation. In the context of the album it's a sharp aside that braids itself into an open-hearted narrative that stands a few paces from Deal's seminal work in Pixies and The Breeders, but taken on its own, it's harder to parse. Just listen to the lilting, sentimental title track that opens the album; layered with cinematic strings, brass blasts and bossa style percolations, it shines a different light on Deal's vulnerable delivery. Over the years, her pitchy recitations were an assertion of self-confidence in a cultural landscape that rewarded bolshy male egotism. Now, years later, she's able to reflect on her songwriting and her inner world with humor, restraint and panache.
She makes an even sharper pivot on 'Crystal Breath', the album's more typical second single. With stripped back instrumentation and pulverized, break-y drums, it features the snarl of Deal's most vital early material, but presents it in a new form, interrupting the mic-damaged vocals with dizzy choral reverberations and sub-aquatic synth bubbles. It sounds as if Deal is combing through personal playlists she's collected over the years and using them to prompt particular memories. On 'Are You Mine', she tenderly waltzes into '50s chamber pop territory, singing over lap steel prangs and heart-melting strings, and continues the thought on the glittering theatrical high-point 'Summertime'. She still makes time to inventory her indie rock era, re-imagining the early Breeders grind on tracks like 'Disobedience' and the jerky 'Big Ben Beat'. Backed up by a team of close collaborators (including bandmate and twin Kelley Deal, Mando Lopez, Jim Macpherson and Britt Walford, plus Teenage Fanclub's Raymond McGinley), she's able to approach things at an angle, not tearing up the past but reconsidering its relevance in a new era.
Our favorite moment is the intermission 'Bats in the Afternoon Sky', where Deal takes a breather by cooing softly and wordlessly over distorted electric piano and dusted kicks. It's like a short dream-within-a dream that helps lighten the weight of expectation by simply reaffirming what we always knew - Deal is the real deal.
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Estimated Release Date: 22 November 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
Kim Deal's long-awaited proper solo album is a late-career masterstroke, all candid and intimate material, but draped in lavish orchestral flourishes and canny nods to US pop history that pull us confidently away from her beloved canon.
Trust Deal to give us the ultimate fake-out while introducing a solo full-length we've been waiting on for decades. The first single, 'Coast', is the album's most mischievous, a wobbly wedding band flashback that seems to interpolate Blondie as Deal casts her mind back to a Massachusetts vacation. In the context of the album it's a sharp aside that braids itself into an open-hearted narrative that stands a few paces from Deal's seminal work in Pixies and The Breeders, but taken on its own, it's harder to parse. Just listen to the lilting, sentimental title track that opens the album; layered with cinematic strings, brass blasts and bossa style percolations, it shines a different light on Deal's vulnerable delivery. Over the years, her pitchy recitations were an assertion of self-confidence in a cultural landscape that rewarded bolshy male egotism. Now, years later, she's able to reflect on her songwriting and her inner world with humor, restraint and panache.
She makes an even sharper pivot on 'Crystal Breath', the album's more typical second single. With stripped back instrumentation and pulverized, break-y drums, it features the snarl of Deal's most vital early material, but presents it in a new form, interrupting the mic-damaged vocals with dizzy choral reverberations and sub-aquatic synth bubbles. It sounds as if Deal is combing through personal playlists she's collected over the years and using them to prompt particular memories. On 'Are You Mine', she tenderly waltzes into '50s chamber pop territory, singing over lap steel prangs and heart-melting strings, and continues the thought on the glittering theatrical high-point 'Summertime'. She still makes time to inventory her indie rock era, re-imagining the early Breeders grind on tracks like 'Disobedience' and the jerky 'Big Ben Beat'. Backed up by a team of close collaborators (including bandmate and twin Kelley Deal, Mando Lopez, Jim Macpherson and Britt Walford, plus Teenage Fanclub's Raymond McGinley), she's able to approach things at an angle, not tearing up the past but reconsidering its relevance in a new era.
Our favorite moment is the intermission 'Bats in the Afternoon Sky', where Deal takes a breather by cooing softly and wordlessly over distorted electric piano and dusted kicks. It's like a short dream-within-a dream that helps lighten the weight of expectation by simply reaffirming what we always knew - Deal is the real deal.
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Estimated Release Date: 22 November 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
Kim Deal's long-awaited proper solo album is a late-career masterstroke, all candid and intimate material, but draped in lavish orchestral flourishes and canny nods to US pop history that pull us confidently away from her beloved canon.
Trust Deal to give us the ultimate fake-out while introducing a solo full-length we've been waiting on for decades. The first single, 'Coast', is the album's most mischievous, a wobbly wedding band flashback that seems to interpolate Blondie as Deal casts her mind back to a Massachusetts vacation. In the context of the album it's a sharp aside that braids itself into an open-hearted narrative that stands a few paces from Deal's seminal work in Pixies and The Breeders, but taken on its own, it's harder to parse. Just listen to the lilting, sentimental title track that opens the album; layered with cinematic strings, brass blasts and bossa style percolations, it shines a different light on Deal's vulnerable delivery. Over the years, her pitchy recitations were an assertion of self-confidence in a cultural landscape that rewarded bolshy male egotism. Now, years later, she's able to reflect on her songwriting and her inner world with humor, restraint and panache.
She makes an even sharper pivot on 'Crystal Breath', the album's more typical second single. With stripped back instrumentation and pulverized, break-y drums, it features the snarl of Deal's most vital early material, but presents it in a new form, interrupting the mic-damaged vocals with dizzy choral reverberations and sub-aquatic synth bubbles. It sounds as if Deal is combing through personal playlists she's collected over the years and using them to prompt particular memories. On 'Are You Mine', she tenderly waltzes into '50s chamber pop territory, singing over lap steel prangs and heart-melting strings, and continues the thought on the glittering theatrical high-point 'Summertime'. She still makes time to inventory her indie rock era, re-imagining the early Breeders grind on tracks like 'Disobedience' and the jerky 'Big Ben Beat'. Backed up by a team of close collaborators (including bandmate and twin Kelley Deal, Mando Lopez, Jim Macpherson and Britt Walford, plus Teenage Fanclub's Raymond McGinley), she's able to approach things at an angle, not tearing up the past but reconsidering its relevance in a new era.
Our favorite moment is the intermission 'Bats in the Afternoon Sky', where Deal takes a breather by cooing softly and wordlessly over distorted electric piano and dusted kicks. It's like a short dream-within-a dream that helps lighten the weight of expectation by simply reaffirming what we always knew - Deal is the real deal.
Estimated Release Date: 22 November 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
Kim Deal's long-awaited proper solo album is a late-career masterstroke, all candid and intimate material, but draped in lavish orchestral flourishes and canny nods to US pop history that pull us confidently away from her beloved canon.
Trust Deal to give us the ultimate fake-out while introducing a solo full-length we've been waiting on for decades. The first single, 'Coast', is the album's most mischievous, a wobbly wedding band flashback that seems to interpolate Blondie as Deal casts her mind back to a Massachusetts vacation. In the context of the album it's a sharp aside that braids itself into an open-hearted narrative that stands a few paces from Deal's seminal work in Pixies and The Breeders, but taken on its own, it's harder to parse. Just listen to the lilting, sentimental title track that opens the album; layered with cinematic strings, brass blasts and bossa style percolations, it shines a different light on Deal's vulnerable delivery. Over the years, her pitchy recitations were an assertion of self-confidence in a cultural landscape that rewarded bolshy male egotism. Now, years later, she's able to reflect on her songwriting and her inner world with humor, restraint and panache.
She makes an even sharper pivot on 'Crystal Breath', the album's more typical second single. With stripped back instrumentation and pulverized, break-y drums, it features the snarl of Deal's most vital early material, but presents it in a new form, interrupting the mic-damaged vocals with dizzy choral reverberations and sub-aquatic synth bubbles. It sounds as if Deal is combing through personal playlists she's collected over the years and using them to prompt particular memories. On 'Are You Mine', she tenderly waltzes into '50s chamber pop territory, singing over lap steel prangs and heart-melting strings, and continues the thought on the glittering theatrical high-point 'Summertime'. She still makes time to inventory her indie rock era, re-imagining the early Breeders grind on tracks like 'Disobedience' and the jerky 'Big Ben Beat'. Backed up by a team of close collaborators (including bandmate and twin Kelley Deal, Mando Lopez, Jim Macpherson and Britt Walford, plus Teenage Fanclub's Raymond McGinley), she's able to approach things at an angle, not tearing up the past but reconsidering its relevance in a new era.
Our favorite moment is the intermission 'Bats in the Afternoon Sky', where Deal takes a breather by cooing softly and wordlessly over distorted electric piano and dusted kicks. It's like a short dream-within-a dream that helps lighten the weight of expectation by simply reaffirming what we always knew - Deal is the real deal.
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