The Breeders
Elektra Records
What started as an adolescent hobby for sisters Kim and Kelley Deal back home in Dayton, Ohio in the early '80s has turned into a career. The convoluted saga of The Breeders began during the waning days of Kim Deal's other famous and enormously influential band The Pixies, when in 1989 she resurrected The Breeders name and recruited some friends to play with her -- guitarist Tanya Donelly (formerly of Throwing Muses), Josephine Wiggs (Perfect Disaster), violinist Carrie Bradley, and drummer Britt Walford (who played under an assumed name, not wanting to interfere with his primary band, the legendary Slint). The quintet recorded their classic debut album Pod with Steve Albini and released it in 1990, introducing a brand new style of profoundly twisted yet enjoyably fizzy pop that combined some of the best elements of The Pixies and Throwing Muses.
Soon after the release of Pod, Black Francis sent his fellow Pixes members the infamous fax announcing that he was breaking up the seminal group for good, allowing Kim to focus exclusively on the Breeders. In 2002, Kelley joined the band (reportedly after Kim spent two weeks teaching her to play bass) and The Breeders recorded their Safari EP, after which Walford bowed out (and was replaced by Jim MacPherson) and Donelly left to start Belly. In 1993 the reconstituted Breeders issued the legendary Last Splash, a frenetic and alchemical mishmash of criminally catchy guitar-pop hooks and totally bizarre ideas which quickly became one of the defining recordings of the '90s (partly on the strength of its memorable singles, "Cannonball" and "Divine Hammer").
Sadly, after tours with Nirvana and the 1994 Lollapalooza gang, The Breeders went on indefinite hiatus. Kelley struggled with a well-publicized drug problem while Kim went back to Dayton with drummer Macpherson and started a new band called The Amps with some local musicians there. In the late '90s, though Kim and Kelley revived the band and began writing and recording again. In 2000, Kim met the East L.A. punk group Fear and enlisted some of its members to become the new Breeders backing band. In 2001 the bunch headed into the studio with Albini, emerging with their eagerly anticipated third record, the strange and elliptical Title TK.
last updated:
05/23/02
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