The Breeders - Pod (Gold Vinyl)

Release Date:04/21/2017;Notes:Pod is the debut album by the American alternative rock band the Breeders, originally released on 4AD in May 1990. The seeds of the group began when the Pixies' Kim Deal and Throwing Muses' Tanya Donelly became friends in 1988 and decided they would like to create music together. Abandoning their initial idea of focusing on dance music, they recorded a country-influenced demo with musicians including violinist Carrie Bradley and bassist Ray Holiday in 1989. When 4AD cofounder Ivo Watts-Russell heard the demo, he offered them money to re-record the songs for an album release. For the album session, Steve Albini was engineer, Josephine Wiggs replaced Halliday on bass, Britt Walford played drums, and both Deal and Donelly played guitar. Following two weeks of practicing in England, the Breeders recorded Pod at the Palladium studio in Scotland. Albini recorded the group quickly, and focused more on getting good sounds from the musical equipment than on trying to improve the musicians' performances. Critics have discussed similarities between Pod and the Pixies' music, and commented favorably or unfavorably on Pod's relative quality to that band's work. The album has been noted for it's minimal instrumentation, and for it's sexual, dark, girl-like lyrics. The Breeders / Pod (Gold Vinyl) / LP Colored Vinyl, Gold Though ostensibly a side project of The Pixies' Kim Deal and Throwing Muses' Tanya Donelly, The Breeders' 1990 debut, Pod, has held up as a classic of late 80s/early 90s off-kilter alternative pop, surpassing the contemporaneous work of their main bands. Though Deal would really hit the big time 3 years later with the Breeders' follow-up, Last Splash, and Donelly would do the same with her next band, Belly, Pod is the band's finest, most coherent, album and perhaps the high point in both their careers. Engineered by the legendary Steve Albini. Reissued On Gold Vinyl;Track List:1. Glorious 3:24;2. Doe 2:06;3. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 2:46;4. Oh! 2:27;5. Hellbound 2:21;6. When I Was a Painter 3:24;7. Fortunately Gone 1:44;8. Iris 3:29;9. Opened 2:28;10. Only in 3's 1:56;11. Limehouse 1:45;12. Metal Man 2:46;Special Attributes:GOLD, COLORED VINYL