Mountain Battles 2008 4ad Records
This album bores me. And that is a painful statement to make because as a teenager in the early 90's, the Breeders' albums defined much of my music listening. They were able to combine quirky and poppy, experimental and rock like few others could. And on this album, some of those qualities remain, but for the most part the songs are just bland. In some ways I attribute this to the fact that the Deal sisters seem so tired in the harmonies, almost as if they are phoning their performances in. But its more than that, the songs themselves, even the uptempo ones, move along at paces that suggest a collective apathy towards the project, even if that is not indeed the case. All in all, their are some gems, most noticeably "German Studies," a pleasant reminder of the Breeders of old featuring actual German lyrics that seem to be sung with more conviction than any of the other tracks. So rather than a "Pod" or a "Last Splash," chalk this one up as more of a "Title Tk": not bad, just sort of ho hum.
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