Dandy Warhol says so. Nobody’s cooler than Kim Deal. The Californian group even dedicated a song to him in 1997, Cool like Kim Deal. Female rock icon of the grunge movement, more accessible than exuberant and trashy Courtney Loveless artistic than Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, Kim Deal has an untapped sympathy in the world of alternative rock. If he remains, in the hearts of the fans, the eternal bassist of Pixies (from 1986 to 1991, then from 2004 to 2013), then brilliantly emancipated himself with Breedersthe group she formed as a teenager with her twin sister, Kelley, and which had success in 1993 with their second album, Last Splash.
As surprising as it may be, the native of Dayton (Ohio) published, at the age of 63, her first solo album, No one loves you more (“no one loves you more”). When quizzed about this “late” solo escape in early October at the offices of her Parisian label, the warm, casually dressed musician, true to her laid-back image, attempts to rectify: “I realized yesterday that I had already released a solo album in 1995 under the name The Amps. Various musicians play on it, including drummer Jim McPherson (Breeders), but that was mostly me. »
But the idea got off to a slow start: between 2012 and 2014, she gradually released a series of self-produced singles that went somewhat unnoticed. After leaving the Pixies in 2013, Kim Deal returned to Dayton to care for her ailing parents. Eventually, the idea of writing new songs for a solo album came up. But the project was shelved after the Breeders reformed and recorded their fifth album, All nerves (2018). In July, “Deal in Chief”, accompanied by The elder Kelley (guitar, backing vocals), as well as Josephine Wiggs (bass) and Jim McPherson (drums), celebrated the 30th anniversary of Last Splash in Paris and at Eurockéennes de Belfort.
This 1990s classic features their biggest hit, the cannon ball. Recently, Kim Deal met an unsuspecting admirer, the American pop star Olivia Rodrigo. In April, the Breeders opened for the 21-year-old singer over four nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden. “We met backstage. She is professional and totally charmingsays the rock godmother, imitating a naive Lolita pout. I remember hearing him address his audience and thank us, then say that his life had been different after listening to him the cannonball. » It goes without saying that support of this magnitude is a great opportunity to reach a new generation. However, Kim Deal is divided: “The Breeders also opened for the Foo Fighters, but I don’t think their audience bought our records. »
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