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Last Splash (CD)

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The Breeders Artist Snapshot:

Pixies bassist Kim Deal began the Breeders as a side project, including her sister Kelly and the Perfect Disaster's Josephine Wiggs. The band's 1990 debut album POD seemed like a one-off at the time, but after the Pixies' breakup, the Deals revived the Breeders with a vengeance. Their second album, 1993's LAST SPLASH, was one of the most popular alternative-rock records of its era. Armed with catchy songs and a Spike Jonze video, the Breeders became MTV darlings. After splintering into various other groups (the Amps, the Kelly Deal 6000, the Josephine Wiggs experience), the Breeders reunited, finally releasing their third album in 2002.

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DISC 1 for Last Splash (CD) Album By The Breeders (Artist)
1   New Year
2   Cannonball
3   Invisible Man
4   No Aloha
5   Roi
6   Do You Love Me Now?
7   Flipside
8   I Just Wanna Get Along
9   Mad Lucas
10   Divine Hammer
11   S.O.S.
12   Hag
13   Saints
14   Drivin' On 9
15   Roi (Reprise)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.136) - Ranked # 26 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums"
Rolling Stone (10/14/93) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...LAST SPLASH gives the impression that the band eschews practice. The fuzzy and lopsided sounds are....the raw progeny of an unabashed, unconventional creativity....LAST SPLASH will make you hope this isn't the Breeders' last plunge...."
Spin (9/99, p.138) - Ranked #39 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Spin (9/93, p.115) - Highly Recommended - "...The Breeders' second album spins out as a litany of summer--or, rather, a summer of rock'n'roll....like PJ Harvey's RID OF ME, LAST SPLASH claims the spotlight--the sun--and has no trouble commanding the stage..."
Entertainment Weekly (8/27/93-9/3/93, p.112) - "...[The Breeders] continue to subvert the classic girl-group melodies of the past with raw guitar miracles of the future..." - Rating: A-
Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.76) - Ranked #12 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...it's addictive, joyous and sexy as sin...."
Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #4 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
NME (Magazine) (12/25/93, p.67) - Ranked #36 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - "...a fascinating collection of styles....an intoxicating mixture of light and shade..."

Title Note

The Breeders: Kim Deal (vocals, guitar, Moog, Casiotone); Kelley Deal (vocals, guitar); Josephine Wiggs (vocals, cello, bass, drums); Jim MacPherson (drums).

Additional personnel: Carrie Bradley (violin, background vocals).

Recorded at Coast Recorders and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California; Refraze, Dayton, Ohio.

Surf's up, but--oooh--what's that dark stuff in the water? Imagine if you can, the spectral spawn of the Ventures, the Ramones, and the Beach Boys suddenly washing up with the high tide, and you get some idea of what to expect from the Breeders, a rogue girl group with a fresh point of view. Hard-edged yet supremely lyrical, the Breeders spend much of LAST SPLASH groping their way through the contradictions of good times in the sun and ambivalence about loss of innocence.

The Breeders' riot-grrrl take on surf punk owes little to the happy naivete of the Ronettes or the Bangles, but catches its spark from a Runaways-through-Bikini Kill fury. On a raveup like "Cannonball," fired by a dancing, jittery bass line and moody, careening power chords, the Breeders evoke girl-group harmonies to suggest romantic surrender and its dark side. Elsewhere songs like "Roi" and "Do You Love Me Now?" (the later song a remix from their last EP) bemoan the loss of romantic expectations, even as the heart quickens with hope on "Divine Hammer." Thanks to LAST SPLASH, you may never hear surf music the same way again.

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