Product Description

'Mountain Battles' is the fourth studio album by alt-rock group The Breeders. The album also marks the return of both Kim and Kelley Deal since 1993's 'Last Splash'. Regarded by some to be one of the most unique alternative rock groups of the 90s, the band are best known for their melodic and off-kilter songs. The combination of memorable guitar hooks and Kim Deal's sweet vocals, perfectly encapsulate the band's strengths and individuality. Includes the single 'We're Gonna Rise'.

Track Listing

1. Overglazed
2. Bang On
3. Night Of Joy
4. We're Gonna Rise
5. German Studies
6. Spark
7. Istanbul
8. Walk It Off
9. Regalame Esta Noche
10. Here No More
11. No Way
12. It's The Love
13. Mountain Battles

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1389 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-07
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Marvelous Misery
Misery is the thing here and a finely articulated misery at that.

It's difficult to imagine anyone cracking a smile in the studio
during the recording of this, The Breeders, fourth album.

Jollity is not of course a prerequisite for fine music.
There is something quite admirable about the consistently po-faced
frown and pout managed here by Ms(s) Deal and Mr(s) Lopez and Medeles.

The band, none-the-less, often manage to achieve unintentional hilarity.

'Here No More' is the kind droll minor key country hoot Ms Welch would be proud to have written.

'Night Of Joy' a dour promise of anything but.

The stripped-down minimalism of 'Mountain Battles' a near masterpiece
in potential suicide provocation.

Uptempo numbers 'German Studies', 'Overglazed', 'Walk It Off' and the splendid 'Bang On'
shift the emotional pace slightly without losing the overall mood of morbibund gravitas.

The lilting guitar and melody of 'Regalame Esta Noche' almost offers some
near-romantic respite but somehow the music still manages to sound
as though it might be rising from an open grave.
A surefire hit for El Dia De Los Muertos.

'Spark' is perhaps however the true highpoint of this sustained exercise in depressive debauchery.
Taken together with the tick-tock, time-passing-slowly, rhythm of 'Istanbul'
I very nearly lost the will to live.

Highly recommended !

Think they forgot the music
Really boring album. All the tracks are slow and quiet and are basically just Kim talkin over a guitar being gently strummed.

A breeders fan and not impressed.

Bang On
This album probably won't win any new fans but to the converted it shouldn't hold any surprises; it's a typically bittersweet eclectic set from the Breeders and will grow on you each time you hear it.

Definitely worth a listen, preferably through a good set of headphones, to fully appreciate the 'All-Wave' i.e. Analogue recording technique which seems to be rubbished by the media in these days of digitised drivel.