It’s remarkable that in her nearly 40 year recording career, Kim Deal is just now releasing her first official solo album. Having worked in main bands The Pixies and The Breeders, on this album the spotlight is solely on her. Nobody Loves You More sounds like it could have come out in the mid 90s after her breakthrough with The Breeders, Last Splash. Indie rock, surf guitar, and orchestral strings co-mingle throughout this album that Deal produced with several tracks having been recorded by Steve Albini before his untimely death in 2024.
The title track has a 70s soundtrack feel to it, it’s a bit hazy, like a yellowing photography with a just a subtle drumbeat. A country twang on the softer sounds of “Are You Mine?” told from the perspective of an Alzheimer patient. One of the highlights of the album is “Wish I Was”. The laid back surf guitar underpinned with a throbbing bass where Deal sings of really liking/loving someone but with the line, “Coming around is easy/coming down is rough”.
The album still fits in plenty of scuzzy rock songs. “Crystal Breath” comes to life when the drumbeat kicks in. Similarly, “Big Ben Beat” kicks up the distortion with some great guitar lines while “Disobedience” is just a cool, upbeat indie rock song that Deal has been writing all her life. The album closes with the last song that Albini recorded, “A Good Time Pushed”. Fittingly it sees Deal sing, “We’re having a good time… I’ll see you around”. A really great album, hopefully we don’t have to wait 35+ years for the next solo album.
8.5/10
25 years ago The Breeders released their classic album, Last Splash featuring the iconic single “Cannonball” and “Divine Hammer”. That line-up included Kim and Kelley Deal on guitar along with Josephine Wiggs on bass and Jim Macpherson on drums. The band broke up soon after but came together for the 20-year anniversary tour. Sparked by that tour, the reformed band released All Nerve in earlier this year.
The Light Appears 