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The Breeders - Mountain Battles
| Lostatsea | Kim Deal's idea of what a record should sound like has always been confusing. She wrote a straight song once, "Gigantic," for her famous, now-reunited first band, and from there only became sloppier, marginalizing her songs with odd knickknacks and slight enough turns of melody that you may or may not ever notice them, no matter how familiar you get or how much you decide to love them/her.
No one knew what sense to make of the last Breeders album, Title TK, which arrived (count 'em) six years ago and (count 'em) nine years after she enjoyed the pop charts in a very different universe with the indelible stoner classic "Cannonball." Title TK was also a stoner classic, only no one noticed, and when she disappeared again this time, who only knew when she was expected to return....full text |
| | Uncut | | Breeders albums are like country buses: you wait a really, long time for one, and when it does finally turn up, the vehicle is so battered, and the driver so laid-back, you wonder how it ever got there at all. It took the Deal twins nine years to follow grunge-pop classic Last Splash with the sweet but flimsy Title TK. Now they’ve frittered away another six summers on Mountain Battles....full text |
| | Slantmagazine | | Bloggers have been complaining that Mountain Battles lacks a "Breeders moment." There's no "Doe" or "Pacer," certainly no "Cannonball," or even anything as bouncy as their cover of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme. Mountain Battles is made up mostly of the stoner genre-tweaks that filled the tracks between those so-called "Breeders moments" on past albums. Picture an album with nothing but songs like "Oh!" and "No Aloha." Things are a little quieter on Mountain Battles (there's no "Huffer" here either), but that might explain why the album gets under the skin the way it does. Even the few rockers are not exactly hook-based, and "Walk It Off" seems downright subversive the way each verse builds toward a chorus like a standard Pixies song only to…repeat the verse again....full text |
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