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Kim Deal on Her Coolest and Most Vulnerable Music
‘My life was not going great at that point, but I think the song is hilarious.’
But after five albums — and amid increasing internal strife with lead singer Black Francis — Deal split and formed the Breeders with Throwing Muses co-founder Tanya Donelly. Their debut album Pod, in 1990, was well received, but it wasn’t until 1993 when MTV began regularly airing the video for “Cannonball” that Deal became an alt-rock hero. Deal’s latest, Nobody Loves You More, the first full-length solo album to bear her name, is a collection of previously released 7” singles, along with new tracks assembled with the late engineer Steve Albini, shortly before his passing.
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