Time is usually seen as a border – the break between younger and previous, between previous and current, between eras of music – 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 2000’s . Some folks ignore these boundaries and appear everlasting as they simply maintain doing their factor, just like the Rolling Stones. Others transfer and evolve as time strikes and evolves, like Kim Deal. Recognized for her energy taking part in within the Pixies, the Breeders, the Amps and different excessive velocity bands, however hardly ever recognized just for herself. Properly, with the discharge of her debut solo No one Lives You Extra, she has crossed the border – modified, grown, and extra related than ever as she turns 63.
She launched the primary track, “Coast” in July, giving us a have a look at why she has no borders. Clean horns, twangy guitars, clearly female vocals with an edge, She will inform a narrative with phrases in addition to notes. In No one Lives You Extra she has given us a multilayered collage of her previous and current – and I believe her future. Music that defies precise categorization, however is a tempting earworm.
Like “Coast” the whole album is a collage. There may be rock and roll, there’s lounge pop, electronica, synth music, violins horns, and echoes of punk, and even marching music. Her vocals are a throughline that retains the album from veering – it’s a entire, a gestalt. However additionally it is one thing for everybody, and is certainly with out borders.
From the candy violins and seductive vocals of the title track, to the stomping metallic march of “Chrystal Breath”, to the echoing romance of “Want I Was” she covers floor extensively and totally. Every track is a gem, however of a unique variety and colour – some diamonds, some rubies, some crystal. “Large Ben Beat” remembers her previous within the Pixies with distortion and hard-edged vocals pushed by a driving beat – after which veers into dream world after which again to punk security.
“Disobedience,” additionally veers throughout borders, punk-pop, synth echoes, and dissonance. It bleeds into “Bats within the Sky”, extra dissonance, but it surely units us up for “Summerland” – completely satisfied, really feel good, however with a thriller echo-edge. “Come Operating” and “Good Time Pushed” inform us inside tales, however with hints of punk and metallic and a whole lot of echo.
No one Loves You Extra is borderless, and speedy. With intelligent writing just like the phrases “I’ve had a tough exhausting touchdown and I have to duck and roll out of my life” in “Coast” she is as now in 2024 as she was within the Breeders – terrific, distinctive and simply as a lot enjoyable.
Patrick O’Heffernan
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