Considering it’s been oh, five years since their last record, today’s been a relatively happening day for the Breeders. Earlier today we picked up on a Q&A which had Kim confirm the lineup (Kelley, along with Title TK‘s Jose Medeles and Mando Lopez), month (April ’08), and triple-bass action (three basses, one song) involved with the band’s forthcoming, fourth release. Now 4AD makes it official: updating the release date (20 days earlier than we thought!) and listing some more of folks who worked on the album (Erika Larson, Manny Nieto, and Ben Mumphrey in addition to master Steve Albini).
Okay exhaustive parentheticals aside, something more (or, well, less) tangible: new Breeders music! The slow-tempo, lo-energy, cooing slacker ballad “We’re Gonna Rise” is streaming over at MySpace. Kim told Venus Zine she doesn’t think theory when she writes, but damn if her progressions don’t always have at least one surprise in there.
Also confirmed: The Breeders will be at SXSW, and Canadian Music Week, and Coachella. Yes.
Mountain Battles is out 4/8/08 on 4AD. There’s no new promo photo just yet, but how about the tracklist? Who knows maybe you’ll recognize a name. After the jump.
01 “Overglazed”
02 “Bang On”
03 “Night Of Joy”
04 “We’re Gonna Rise”
05 “German Studies”
06 “Spark”
07 “Istanbul”
08 “Walk It Off”
09 “Regalame Esta Noche”
10 “Here No More”
11 “No Way”
12 “It’s The Love”
13 “Mountain Battles”
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Are they for serious about making us all wait for an April `08 release date? Can someone explain to me what they’re doing at 4AD between now and April `08? I have no idea why record labels (esp. one as small as 4AD) haven’t figured out a way to compress the time between final mastering and release date.
well duh grambo, labels need that gap of time to give the album a larger window to leak and be illegally downloaded by everybody! i see no other explanation.
Breeders are back? I say YAY!
looking forward to this!
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Actually, it may well be because 4AD is a relatively small label that it has to wait to release the album even if it’s finished now. Labels have only so much money and personnel to promote a record – what band would want its CD released only to die without being promoted because the label doesn’t have enough staff to promote their record, since everyone’s busy working on the other records? In other words, a label’s going to release its CDs when it can promote them, when there aren’t 4,397 other CDs to compete with (if that’s to its benefit), and so on. Even a band self-releasing something online isn’t going to choose, say, New Year’s Day at 9am to throw a big online release party – timing is everything.
the Deal sisters are hot! and back!