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‘I’m intrigued by failure’: Kim Deal on death, addiction – and releasing her debut solo album at 63

Having weathered the losses of close family members and collaborator Steve Albini – and supported Olivia Rodrigo live at her request – the Breeders and Pixies star finds herself mooting mortality and legacy

“Back in the 80s, it wasn’t the fashion,” she says, remembering the words of Vaughan Oliver, her label 4AD’s late graphic designer, who did all the artwork for her former band, Pixies, as well as her canonical 90s albums as the Breeders with her twin sister, Kelley. She gives the simple reason that she started playing some of them on the ukulele, to which Wiggs would have said – Deal puts on her plummiest English impression of disgust – “Absolutely not!” Instead, Nobody Loves You More was recorded across different studios with a slew of old friends, including John Frusciante, Slint’s Britt Walfordand the late Steve Albini. Nobody Loves You More channels classic American sounds: there are moments of tender country and sublime Rat Pack strings and doo-wop; the sweetest melodies, but also left-turns such as the dance-punk of Crystal Breath, a rejected theme for the aerobics comedy series Physical.

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