The Breeders Confirm Work On New Album

Following Kim Deal’s departure from The Pixies, the map’s been laid out for the return of her other band, The Breeders.

The band last made an appearance back in 2009 with the ‘Fate to Fatal’ and before that the 2008 album ‘Mountain Battles’. Last year they took their 1993 album ‘Last Splash’ out on the road to celebrate its 20th anniversary, re-titled ‘LSXX’. But in an interview with Stereogum Kim confirmed that they’re at work on a new album.

‘We’re down in the basement recording and the songs are sounding good,” said Deal. “And honestly, I don’t know what else to do. This is what I like to do. I like to record and play songs. I don’t think there’s much of an industry for it these days, but that’s just what I do, you know.’

Formed way back in 1988, The Breeders were initially a side project for Deal and Tanya Donelly from Throwing Muses, with ‘Last Splash’ being released in 1993 after the break up of Deal’s main band, The Pixies. The record went platinum in the States, and provided the band with their biggest (and arguably best known) hit, ‘Canonball’. Despite their many personnel changes over the years - with only the Deal sisters remaining constant, the line up appearing on the video is the same as that which recorded the record twenty years ago; Kim and Kelley Deal on guitars, Josephine Wiggs on bass and drummer Jim MacPherson.