The Breeders’ ‘Mountain Battles’
By
Alison Powell
March 24, 2008
The band’s first album in six years sees the Breeders holding fast to the sound and vision that has been theirs since Safari and Pod. Now, as then, the backbone of Battles is the famous breathy Deal vocal, high, sweet, and little girlish. This is a relief because the songs they sing are fragmented modernist pieces; stories in search of narrative and ending. The most successful track, “German Studies,” is, sadly, in German.
Get out that Berlitz CD. “It’s the Love” crackles with vintage Breeders cheer. To those nostalgic for Clinton-era indie pop, these thirteen tracks will bring succor. But like all trips home, the house feels smaller than you remember.
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