From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V2 #102 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, July 14 1999 Volume 02 : Number 102 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Kim and Kim and Kim and Kim [rachel kramer bussel Subject: [MLL] Kim and Kim and Kim and Kim yay!!! this definitely brightens my previously bad day... :) Rachel http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=14995&article=27334&date_query=931549718 The Breeders: In The Studio With Steve Albini Wed Jul 7 21:40:24 1999 The muse is alive and well in Kim Deal, as she's hard at work on the next Breeders album with uber-producer Steve Albini. Now if only she could get it on tape. After a bad recording session in New York, Deal's band quit. "I didn't use any of it," says Deal from Chicago, holed up at Albini's Electrical Audio Recording Studio (EARS). "Now these songs are like three years old." With the lineup changing for every record, Deal was often the only mainstay -- now she's the only band member. This isn't stopping her from making the record she's been trying to make for three years, though. Starting from scratch with Albini, who worked on the first Pixies (Deal's previous band) and Breeders records, as well as Nirvana's In Utero, she spent the last year teaching herself drums, and is playing all the bass and guitar parts. "Kelley [Deal's twin sister] is going to be a part of this, but at this point, it's just me." Deal is also considering former Slint drummer Britt Walford, who appeared under pseudonyms on previous Breeders projects. "I think it will be easier to play it the way I want it and record it," she says. "When it's time to play live, I can just say, 'Here, this is what it is.' That's easier than someone trying to imagine what I'm talking about and trying to work it out." Deal realizes it's a strange way to record an album, and says, "It's not like it's a great thing to do it this way, but I want to get this record done, and until I find the kind of drummer I'm looking for, I'll do it like this." Albini, who just finished recording with his own band Shellac, is famous for his no-fuss approach to recording. "Steve's a really great traditional engineer. He gives the music real depth and warmth, plus I know he'll never turn digital on me," says Deal. "He doesn't take any of the easy band-aid ways to record; he makes sure he has the right everything." In anticipation of criticism that she is a perfectionist, Deal stresses, "I'm not trying to be picky or difficult, but it's important to me that these songs be done right, and now I'm in a place where I can do that." The album, as yet untitled, is due out in early 2000. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V2 #102 **********************************