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The Breeders released “Cannonball” back in 1993 (God that’s 15 years ago) and the weird part is that to my ear it sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday. The reason for this musing on times past is that I have just heard a track from their soon to be released album called “Mountain Battles”, a track called “Bang On“. And on hearing this track I rummaged around and found “Cannonball” just to make sure I wasn’t imagining things. The song didn’t sound anything like it but the attitude was still there, the 15 years just vanished…

The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal (vocals and guitar), her twin sister Kelley Deal (guitar and vocals), Jose Medeles (drums and percussion) and Mando Lopez (bass guitar); Kim Deal has been the band’s sole continual member.

Harp has an interview with Kim, here is what was said about the song…

HARP: “Bang On” is the spookiest song on the record.

That was me and Jose [Medeles, drummer] in the basement trying to bug out and make a hit song that you’d hear on the radio. It was really scary… because you could actually imagine it on the radio. So I told him to quit it and we played this [laughs] and used that weird Telefunken mic that and put it through a four track. You can hear us clapping too, just like David Bowie did on “Fame.”

I found a copy of Cannonball at YouTube…

Things to like, they still seem to record in analog, they still have an ear for a quirky guitar riff and they still are making great music.

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Have a look at www.myspace.com/thebreeders