The indie-rock legend talks Pixies, Olivia Rodrigo, the loss of her parents, and the release of her first solo album, Nobody Loves You More
begins the interview with a geography lesson. “I’m in f**king Ohio,” exclaims the indie rock legend, famous for playing piledriver bass in, the original moshpit messiahs, and who then, with her own group, The Breeders, wrote one of the great 1990s alternative anthems, the
Gladiator II review: Don’t blame Paul Mescal but there’s no good reason for this jumbled sequel to exist His contribution to alternative rock didn’t start or end with these blockbusting figures. Albini treated every artist equally, regardless of their profile or recording budget, and worked with several Irish acts, including The Frames and Adrian Crowley. “I didn’t know that he was particularly known for, like, giving Irish bands the time of day,” Deal says. “That doesn’t f**king surprise me.”
That was a misconception, and reports of a power struggle between Deal and him are overstated. Deal says she never saw her membership of Pixies as an impediment to her songwriting. That’s why she founded The Breeders in 1989, when Pixies were still a going concern. It came together a year after Kelley was arrested for heroin possession and packed off to court-mandated drug rehabilitation. Kim put The Breeders on ice and wrote Pacer, though the rest of The Breeders – even Kelley – contributed. She recorded much of the album in Dublin, in a studio the name and location of which she has long forgotten.
Pacer was a great album, but it’s The Breeders and Pixies for which she will go down in indie history. Deal left Pixies in 2011 – the band had re-formed in 2004 – but she will forever be associated with an act that did much to catalyse the loud-yet-vulnerable formula of indie rock and paved the way for Nirvana and grunge.
The strangest part of putting out a solo record, Deal says, is having her face plastered everywhere. The cover of Nobody Loves You More features a striking photograph of the singer by Alex Da Corte: Deal is on a raft with a guitar, some amps and a flamingo .
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