The Breeders
'Cannonball' kicks off with Kim Deal's voice squawking through a harmonica microphone, then lurches into Josephine Wiggs's lopsided bassline that made the Breeders unlikely stars of 1993.
Deal had started the band with Throwing Muses' Tanya Donelly as a side project from Pixies, and Pod, recorded by Steve Albini, was a stark, eerie favourite of Kurt Cobain's. Her twin sister Kelley joined on guitar in 1992, and Last Splash was a scrappy, sun-baked mix of surf, punk and pop that went platinum in the US.
The Last Splash line-up reunited in 2013, released All Nerve in 2018 and still tours.
If you like The Breeders you should check out: Pixies, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Hole, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mudhoney, Lush




