The Breeders: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
April 16, 2018, Lars Gotrich After many iterations, hiatuses and returns, The Breeders will always be Kim Deal s band, with her sister Kelley at her side. They return this year to an old lineup, with all the promise (and old wounds) it brings. But you can see a renewed love and goofiness throughout this set using a roadie as a crash cymbal, or Kim Deal s fauxexasperation at Josephine Wiggs for starting a windup toy just before a song. The same group behind the band s breakout, 1993 Last Splash a sugarsmacked, altpop album that sounded like nothing else in the underground pushed to rock radio just released All Nerve in March. Now bassist Wiggs and drummer Jim Macpherson join Kim and Kelley Deal for this Tiny Desk Concert. Somehow, between the four of us getting in the basement and playing together again, it all just felt exactly the same as the good times before everything, Kelley Deal told NPR. It was just really The new songs don t have the same punch as Last Splash; rather, they
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