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The Breeders are an American
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band based in
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, consisting of members Kim Deal (rhythm guitar, lead vocals), her twin sister Kelley Deal (lead guitar, vocals),
Josephine Wiggs Miranda Cordelia Susan Josephine Wiggs (born 26 February 1963) is an English multi-instrumentalist rock musician, best known for her work as bassist in the alternative rock bands The Breeders and The Perfect Disaster. She has also formed multi ...
(bass guitar, vocals) and Jim Macpherson (drums). The earliest incarnation of the band was formed by Kim Deal and
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in 1989 as a side-project alongside their full-time bands Pixies and Throwing Muses respectively. To record their debut album, 1990's ''
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'', Deal and Donelly recruited bassist Josephine Wiggs of The Perfect Disaster and drummer Britt Walford of
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. Kim's sister Kelley was brought into the band as a third guitarist (though at the time, Kelley famously had never played guitar before joining the band) in 1992 to record the ''
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'' EP, and shortly thereafter Tanya Donelly left to concentrate full-time on her own new band, Belly, leaving Kelley Deal as the sole lead guitarist, while Britt Walford left as well around the same time. While the band's first record wasn't initially a commercial success, the band had developed a following among
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fans and praises from people such as
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frontman Kurt Cobain, who cited ''Pod'' as one of his all-time favorite albums, the band prepared to record their next album. In 1993, the Pixies broke up, leaving Deal to concentrate on The Breeders as her full-time band. Kim recruited local
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musician Jim Macpherson (previously a member of Dayton indie rock band The Raging Mantras) to replace the recently departed Walford on drums, cementing the Breeders' best-known line-up. The band's most commercially successful album, '' Last Splash'', was released in 1993 in the midst of the early 1990s
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boom. The album went on to be certified
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by the
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, and is best known for its hit single " Cannonball". A year after the success of ''Last Splash'', drug and alcohol issues forced the band into hiatus in 1994, while both the Deal sisters did separate stints in rehab in the following years. During the band's hiatus, Kim Deal formed the short-lived alternative rock band The Amps, recording a single album, '' Pacer'', in 1995. In the late 1990s, Kim and Kelley reformed The Breeders with a new line-up (including members of the band
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) and released two more albums, '' Title TK'' in 2002 and '' Mountain Battles'' in 2008. In 2013, Kim and Kelley had announced that the "classic" line-up (including
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and Jim Macpherson) had reunited for the first time since the 1990s for a new series of tours celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band's hit album '' Last Splash''. They released their fifth album '' All Nerve'' in 2018, the "classic" Breeders line-up's first full-length album together since 1993's ''Last Splash''.


History


Formation

The Breeders' history began when Kim Deal, not fulfilled in her subordinate role as bassist of the Pixies, began writing new material while the Pixies were touring ''
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'' in Europe with Throwing Muses. As neither band had plans in the immediate future, Deal discussed possible side projects with Throwing Muses guitarist Tanya Donelly. They recruited Carrie Bradley, violinist and vocalist in Boston band Ed's Redeeming Qualities, and recorded a short demo tape. Tracks on the demo tape included early versions of "Lime House", "Doe", and "Only in 3's". With the help of three different drummers— David Narcizo, Mickey Bones, and Carl Haarer—and bassist Ray Halliday, Deal and Donelly completed their demo tape and subsequently played one show at The Rathskeller in Boston. They were not called The Breeders at this point, but were billed as "Boston Girl Super-Group". The band sent the tape to the English
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because both the Pixies and the Throwing Muses were signed to the label. Upon hearing the tape, 4AD head Ivo Watts-Russell remarked, "This is absolutely magical, beautiful stuff." Deal originally described the band as "
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from Hell".Deal, Kim in The name Breeders had previously been used for a band Deal led with her twin sister Kelley. " Breeders", a gay slang term for heterosexuals, was chosen because Kim Deal found it humorous and also reflected her love of horror films, specifically referencing
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's 1979 film '' The Brood''.


''Pod'' (1990–91)

4AD gave Deal and Donelly a budget of $11,000 to make an album. Deal asked The Perfect Disaster's
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to play bass. The two had first met when Perfect Disaster supported the Pixies in London in 1988. Deal asked
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, who had worked on the Pixies' 1988 album ''
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'', to record the album. The Breeders did not have a drummer, so Albini suggested Britt Walford of
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. Walford agreed to play on the album under the pseudonym "Shannon Doughton". A week of rehearsal took place at Wiggs's house in
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, England, and ''
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'' was recorded in ten days in
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. They used the remaining time to record a
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and a video for "Hellbound." Returning to London, they played two shows, the only time that this lineup ever appeared onstage together. Released on 28 May 1990, ''Pod,'' although not commercially successful, received positive reviews from alternative and mainstream critics alike; ''
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''' Karen Schoemer wrote: "The angular melodies, shattered tempos, and screeching dynamics recall elements of each of the women's full-time bands, but ''Pod'' has a smart, innovative edge all its own." The album was also famously cited by Kurt Cobain as one of his favorite records ever: "The main reason I like he Breedersis for their songs, for the way they structure them, which is totally unique, very atmospheric. I wish Kim was allowed to write more songs for the Pixies, because ' Gigantic' is the best Pixies song, and Kim wrote it." He listed ''Pod'' as one of the 50 albums he thought were most influential to
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's sound in his journal in 1993. In July 2007, in a chat forum interview, ''Pod'''s engineer
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revealed that he considered the album to be among his best works.


''Safari'' and ''Last Splash'' (1992–94)

Following ''Pod'', the members of The Breeders returned to their original bands. The Pixies released ''
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'' in 1990 and ''
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'' in 1991, but by the end of 1991 were becoming less active. Deal, with time off from the Pixies, visited Wiggs in Brighton, and they went into a London studio with Spacemen 3/ Spiritualized drummer
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to record a new song called "Safari." The other three tracks on what became the ''
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'' EP were recorded in New York with Walford and Donelly, who was by then planning to form Belly. Deal then asked her sister Kelley to take over on guitar, even though, famously, Kelley did not know how to play guitar. The Pixies became inactive in mid-1992, at which time drummer Jim Macpherson was recruited and The Breeders became a full-time band, opening for
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on their 1992 European tour. In January 1993, The Breeders went to Coast Recorders in San Francisco to record their second album. '' Last Splash'' was released in August 1993 to widespread acclaim and commercial success. Three singles were released from the album, including "Cannonball", which made it to no. 2 on the ''
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chart. The band contributed a live recording of the song "Iris" to the 1993 AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the
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. In 1993, they toured supporting Nirvana on their '' In Utero'' tour, and in 1994, ''Last Splash'' received a platinum
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by the
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. Also in 1994, the band secured a prime spot on the
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tour. This lineup played their last show together on September 5, 1994, at Lollapalooza in Los Angeles, California.


Hiatus

In 1995, Kelley was involved in a drug bust, which put The Breeders on an indefinite hiatus. Kim formed a side project, The Amps, with Macpherson, Dayton locals bassist Luis Lerma (member of The Tasties) and guitarist Nate Farley, who later joined Guided by Voices. In October 1995, The Amps released the album '' Pacer''. Following drug rehab, Kelley started The Kelley Deal 6000, also forming The Last Hard Men with
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,
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drummer
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, and Jimmy Flemion of
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. Meanwhile, in New York, Wiggs recorded and co-produced the
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' album ''Klassics with a K'', a Luscious Jackson side-project (also touring with them playing drums), released a solo album on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label, and released an album on Atlantic Records under the name Dusty Trails with Luscious Jackson keyboardist Vivian Trimble. In 1996, Kim reclaimed The Breeders moniker, but with essentially The Amps' lineup plus violinist Carrie Bradley, and played a few California dates. They made an unsuccessful attempt at recording a third studio album in 1997. Kelley Deal rejoined the band the following year and wrote and recorded songs with her sister, although the only material released during this period was a cover of The Three Degrees' take on James Gang's "Collage", recorded for ''
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'' soundtrack in 1999.


''Title TK'' (2001–02)

The Deal sisters recruited new personnel to play several live shows in 2001, and returned to the studio with guitarist Richard Presley, bass player Mando Lopez, and drummer Jose Medeles to record the third Breeders studio album, '' Title TK'', with
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. This lineup was profiled in a short documentary film entitled ''The Breeders: The Real Deal'' (Netherlands, 2002). The Breeders also performed in an episode of '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' in early 2002. They were approached by the production staff after they had been playing the show's theme, written by
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, as a regular part of their concert set. The episode is entitled " Him", and aired November 5, 2002; they sang their song "Little Fury" at the Bronze. They also contributed the track "Wicked Little Town: Hedwig Version" to the 2003 ''
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'' tribute album, " Wig in a Box".


''Mountain Battles'' and ''Fate to Fatal'' (2008–10)

'' Mountain Battles'' was released in April 2008 on
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. It features Kim and Kelley, Jose Medeles, and Mando Lopez. They went to Refraze Recording Studio in
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, Ohio to record and mix the majority of the tracks. The Breeders' third EP, ''
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'' was released on April 21, 2009. It contains a
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cover ("Chances Are") and a song with vocals by
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. The title track was recorded at The Fortress Studios, London, by
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producer Gareth Parton. The music video featured the Arch Rival Roller Girls, a St. Louis
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league. They curated an edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in May 2009 in Minehead, England. They played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York, in September 2010.


''LSXX'' and ''All Nerve'' (2012–present)

In 2012, the reunited ''Last Splash'' lineup of Kim and Kelley, Macpherson, and Wiggs announced a tour to coincide with a 20th anniversary reissue by 4AD of ''Last Splash,'' entitled ''LSXX''. The tour began in the US, continued in Europe, Australia, and South America, and included the Deerhunter-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival. A teaser video was made by the band showing the reunited lineup in rehearsal. In a June 2016 article,
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reported that the band was in their Ohio studio recording a follow up to ''Mountain Battles'', and that Courtney Barnett, who was in town for the Nelsonville Music Festival, recorded some backup vocals for one of the album's songs. A single, "
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", was released on October 3, 2017, and is part of an upcoming seven-inch series to be issued by 4AD. The song will be available on three different seven-inch records, limited to only 1,500 copies. ''
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'' described the song as "a classic Breeders bruiser, clocking it at two minutes, and packed with punchy drums, sugar-rush power chords, and lead riffs". During a BBC interview with
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on October 13, 2017, Kim revealed that the band expected to release a new album in 2018, possibly on the 4AD label. The 4AD Label announced on January 9, 2018, that the new album, ''All Nerve'', would be released on March 2, 2018. The title track was released as the album's second single on the same day. '' All Nerve'', was released as planned on March 2, 2018. In March 2021, the band released their first new recording in over three years: A cover of His Name is Alive's "The Dirt Eaters." The cover is part of a forthcoming
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covers compilation, entitled ''Bills and Aches and Blues''.


Members

Current members * Kim Deal – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1989–1995, 1996–2003, 2008–present), lead guitar (1996–1998) * Josephine Wiggs – bass, vocals (1989–1995, 2012–present) * Kelley Deal – lead guitar, vocals (1992–1995, 1998–2003, 2008–present), rhythm guitar (1992) * Jim Macpherson – drums, percussion (1992–1995, 1996–1997, 2012–present) Former members * Tanya Donelly – lead guitar, vocals (1989–1992) * Carrie Bradley – violin (1989–1993, 1996–1997) * Britt Walford – drums (1989–1992) * Jon Mattock – drums (1992) * Richard Presley – rhythm and lead guitar (2000–2006) * Mando Lopez – bass (2000–2006, 2008–2012) * Jose Medeles – drums (2001–2003, 2008–2012) Former touring musicians * Nate Farley – guitar (1996–1997) * Luis Lerma – bass (1996–1997) * Cheryl Lyndsey – guitar (2008–2012)


Timeline


Discography


Studio albums

* ''
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'' (1990) * '' Last Splash'' (1993) * '' Title TK'' (2002) * '' Mountain Battles'' (2008) * '' All Nerve'' (2018)


EPs

* ''
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'' (1992) * ''
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'' (1994) * ''
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'' (2009)


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