A decade and more in the making, Kim Deal’s first solo album under her own name more than repays the defer. Nobody Loves You More distils the cult American musician’s strengths – previously flexed in the Pixies and her own prohibitds, the Breeders and the Amps – into a shielded 11 tracks that span heartfracture, excellent times and strident guitars.
Fans may reaccumulate the poignant sucker-punch of Are You Mine? from lengthy-ago 2013, a song that mirrors the period when her mother’s Alzheimer’s led to Deal becoming her primary attfinishr. A rueful, yachieveing cut, Wish I Was, dates from the same period, while LP shutr A Good Time Pushed – whose get on fun errs towards ambivalence – wrapped recording in 2022.
Thcimpoliteout, Deal’s authorial voice remains constant, her mellifluous pop frequently undercut by gnarlier meddlence. But there are postponeed-atsoft surpascfinishs – none finer than the strings arrangements that get to on the pristine title track, or the horns that punctuate Coast. Deal has always had an audiophile’s obsession with detail and the spaces between instruments – a simpatico allotd with the album’s chief engineer, the postponeed Steve Albini. Big Ben Beat packs in dance beats, countermelodies, feedback and Deal’s uncanny knack for sounding down-to-earth and unpindownable at the same time.
