The Breeders Albums Ranked

The Breeders are an American alternative rock band based in Dayton, Ohio, consisting of members Kim Deal (rhythm guitar, lead vocals), her twin sister Kelley Deal (lead guitar, vocals), Josephine Wiggs (bass guitar, vocals) and Jim Macpherson (drums). The earliest incarnation of the band was formed by Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly in 1989 as a side-project alongside their full-time bands Pixies and Throwing Muses respectively. To record their debut album, 1990’s Pod, Deal and Donelly recruited bassist Josephine Wiggs of The Perfect Disaster and drummer Britt Walford of Slint. 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 Safari 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 indie rock fans and praises from people such as Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who cited Pod as one of his all-time favorite albums, the band prepared to record their next album. Here are all of The Breeders albums ranked.

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6. Safari 

“It has everything that the Breeders do well: rock-candy guitar riffs, the sugar-coated sandpaper of Kim Deal’s voice, maddeningly catchy melodies, the unmistakable undercurrent of menace (the massive guitar riff, the hard edges of Kim’s vocals). It’s a wonder of the sort that only the Breeders could pull off; not even the Pixies could do it quite like this.”

5. Mountain Battles 

“This feels like a total make out record. It’s slinky and slow, not to mention ghostly, haunted by a reverb which coats the already sensual vocals and the slow grooves. No, it’s not as rousing as their second album or oddly compelling as their debut but it’s great in its own way. The most important thing is The Breeders are back.”

4. All Nerve 

“The Breeders are definitely back. The songs here are tight and catchy. The guitars have that trademark Breeders sound, a sound you can trace from their very first album. Kim Deal’s vocals remains an addictive element. It’s delirious and delicious.”

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3. Title TK 

“The garage rock revival was in full grind at the time of Title TK’s release. That makes this album more perplexing. Kim Deal and Fear take rock and roll and do something completely fucking unique and beautiful with it. They take their barre chords and distortion and turn it into a swirl of beauty, (somewhat) relaxed and natural, but certainly not devoid of energy…maybe swerving into surface tension at times.”

2. Pod 

“Kim Deal should be viewed as some kind of National Treasure Stateside, though I am not sure if she is. Paulie Jay’s comment that he thought Pod was a bunch of demos sounds spot on; and it is part of what I love about this record. There is not a lot of fancy pretense. The songs are strong enough that they don’t need a lot of overdubs to complete them.”

1. Last Splash 

“The band’s second offering, this time with Kim Deal’s sister Kelly on board in place of Tanya Donelly who had scuppered off to form Belly, freaks out and turns up the amps to create a more fuzzed up and typically rock centric sound than than was heard on the brutal, creeping and minimal garage pop of _Pod_. As such then, it is a slightly less compelling and cohesive album, but it still succeeds in beating the Hell out of any of her ex-collegue Frank Black’s solo efforts.”