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Kim Deal Ponders Island Life in ‘Coast,’ Just in Time for Summer

Kim Deal has released 'Coast,' her first new solo song in a decade, which was recorded by Steve Albini.

Before the Breeders head out to open more shows for Olivia Rodrigo next month, the band's frontperson releases a new Steve Albini-produced single According to Deal, the song came about four years ago when she attended a friend’s nuptials and heard the wedding band play Buffett’s “Margaritaville.” Combined with an unsatisfying trip she took too many years ago to Nantucket — where she went to “duck and roll out of my life,” she sings — Deal concocted her own, ironic take on a bummed-out escapist tune. Woozy horns and a lazy, laconic guitar lead only add to Deal’s wry observations on the local surfers checking the swells on the WAM chart: “All hold up and abandon plans for the good times/Where forgotten roads take lost lives/To beautiful kids on the coast.”

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