259) Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More

When you decide to enter world of music you have to decide how you want to be known.

Let’s have a look at a few:

1)     Mark E Smith – an awkward sod who didn’t care what anyone thought, respected but never sold millions and probably never wanted to.

2)     Jason Orange – can dance, looks good, more than happy to be in a boy band, not caring if people think he is cool or credible, makes a shedload of money and disappears and knows no one is waiting for his solo album.

3)     Kim Deal – look cool, join a band who sell records and are considered cool, form your own offshoot band that do very well and at sixty-three release a debut album that everyone thinks is very cool. Dandy Warhols wrote a song called Cool as Kim Deal. She’s cool.

Kim Deal has been famous for nearly forty years, she has had an illustrious career with The Pixies and The Breeders is often on lists as an inspiration and more importantly is still out there touring and performing and at sixty-three has just released her debut solo record.

The title track opens the record and is obviously quiet then noisy guitars, no I am lying we have strings and brass and it’s marvellous and then she launches into Coast with trombone and trumpet, I wasn’t expecting this at all but it’s certainly different and so far, excellent.

Crystal Breath, we have a buzz throughout an unsettling electronic tone and a harsher vocal , reminds me of Beck when he is on form and Are You Mine is a heartfelt ballad on her late mother’s Alzheimer’s and Disobedience it’s good to have the guitars hitting the speakers.

Big Ben Beat just goes off with industrial guitar and then the drums kick in and Kim decides to rap, yep its certainly different from her but equally enjoyable and Kim can now compare herself to George Formby as she strums ukulele on the uplifting ballad Summertime (George Formby – I’m going for the young audience!) .

Steve Albini worked on this record before his death and the closer A Good Time Pushed recorded at his studio is a top-notch way to pay tribute to him and excellent guitar from Teenage Fanclubs Raymond McGinley.

Big Ben Beat ends with the words “Now I’m just another asshole.”  No Kim, and I may have said this, you are just very cool.

8.5/10

GIVE IT A STREAM: Coast