After a couple of years re-living the 80s touring with her old band The Pixies, Kim Deal is back with a new Breeders album. Mountain Battles (4AD), is the bands 4th album, and as per usual, the songs are varied as anything, tho on the whole, the album is popier than 2002s Title TK. The album opens strongly with Overglazed, which is all chiming, shoegazerish guitar action, absolutely stunning. Other album highlights include Walk It Off, which is catchy as hell with a sweat bass led groove, Here No More, a country-ish tune featuring some lovely Deal sister harmonies, and Istanbul, the closest to anything off Title TK, tho with a deceptively catchy chorus. Elsewhere, the quirkiness of some of the songs leave me a little cold. German Studies (sung in German) and Regalame Esta Noche (sung in Spanish) are both guilty of this, songs that are good rather than great, relatively inoffensive tunes.
Overall, another great album from the Deal sisters, I for one am hoping we don't have to wait another 5 years for the next album.
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