The Dandy Warhols say so. Nobody is cooler than Kim Deal. The Californian group even dedicated a song to him in 1997, Great as Kim Deal. Icon of the female rock of the grunge movement, more accessible than the exuberant and vulgar Courtney Love, less artistic than Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Kim Deal has an intact sympathy in the world of alternative rock. If she remains, in the hearts of her fans, the eternal bassist of the Pixies (from 1986 to 1991, then from 2004 to 2013), she then brilliantly emancipated herself with the Breeders, the group she formed as a teenager with her twin sister. Kelley, and who achieved success in 1993 with his second album, last splash.
As surprising as it may seem, the native of Dayton (Ohio) published, at the age of 63, her first solo album, Nobody loves you more (“no one loves you more”). When we ask her about this “late” solo escape, at the beginning of October, in the offices of her Parisian label, the warm musician, dressed informally, true to her relaxed image, tries to rectify: “Yesterday I realized that he had already released a solo album in 1995 under the name The Amps. Different musicians play on it, including drummer Jim McPherson. [Breeders], but that was mainly me. »
But the idea little by little gained strength: between 2012 and 2014, he gradually published a series of self-produced singles, which went somewhat unnoticed. After leaving the Pixies in 2013, Kim Deal returned to Dayton to care for her ailing parents. Finally the idea arose to write new songs for a solo album. But the project was postponed after the Breeders reformed and the recording of their fifth album, all nerve (2018). In July, the “Deal in Chief”, accompanied by his eldest Kelley (guitar, backing vocals), as well as Josephine Wiggs (bass) and Jim McPherson (drummer), celebrated the 30th anniversary of last splash in Paris and at the Eurockéennes in Belfort.
It is in this classic from the 90s where his greatest success appears, Cannonball. Recently, Kim Deal met an unexpected admirer, American pop star Olivia Rodrigo. In April, the Breeders opened for the 21-year-old singer for four nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden. “We met backstage. She is professional and totally charming.says the godmother of rock, imitating a naive Lolita pout. I remember hearing him address his audience and thank us, and then saying that his life had been different after listening to it. 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 Foo Fighters, but I don’t think their audience bought our albums. »
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