The Breeders: Mountain Battles
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Kevin O'Donnell wrote in the Village Voice: "Kim Deal wants you to know that she's still a sentient being. 'I can feeeeeeeeel it!' she howls over and over on 'Overglazed,' the opening track on the first Breeders disc in six years. It's a hair-raising statement, and something totally unexpected from someone who hasn't been doing all that well these past few years: She's been dumped by a major label. … But that's how Mountain Battles starts: two minutes of our comeback kid joyfully shouting those four life-affirming words over unbridled, Keith Moon–style drumming and the sexiest guitar riff this side of the band's breakthrough hit, 'Cannonball.' In many ways, what follows is the perfect distillation of the Breeders' catalog … 'Overglazed' whips itself into a hurricane like 1992's 'Safari,' 'Walk It Off' swaggers sideways like 'Tipp City,' and 'Night of Joy' mines the spooky girl-group pop that Kim experimented with on 2002's Title TK. … Kim's sister Kelley takes lead vocals on the perfectly lovely Mexican ballad 'Regalame Esta Noche'" ("Reviews: The New Deals," 4/9-15/08, p. 110).
Kevin O'Donnell wrote in the Village Voice: "Kim Deal wants you to know that she's still a sentient being. 'I can feeeeeeeeel it!' she howls over and over on 'Overglazed,' the opening track on the first Breeders disc in six years. It's a hair-raising statement, and something totally unexpected from someone who hasn't been doing all that well these past few years: She's been dumped by a major label. … But that's how Mountain Battles starts: two minutes of our comeback kid joyfully shouting those four life-affirming words over unbridled, Keith Moon–style drumming and the sexiest guitar riff this side of the band's breakthrough hit, 'Cannonball.' In many ways, what follows is the perfect distillation of the Breeders' catalog … 'Overglazed' whips itself into a hurricane like 1992's 'Safari,' 'Walk It Off' swaggers sideways like 'Tipp City,' and 'Night of Joy' mines the spooky girl-group pop that Kim experimented with on 2002's Title TK. … Kim's sister Kelley takes lead vocals on the perfectly lovely Mexican ballad 'Regalame Esta Noche'" ("Reviews: The New Deals," 4/9-15/08, p. 110).
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