Kim Deal has been in the music business for a long time, but he still found some surprises when he made his first solo album.
Choose cover art for No One Loves You More presented the Breeders frontwoman, 63, with a whole host of options she’d never considered before – for example, putting her own face on the record.
“Someone at the label said, ‘You know, you might be there,'” Deal said specifically Us Weekly ahead of the album’s Friday, November 22, release. “And I was like, ‘I can do it, can’t I?’ why not? i have no better idea.
The final product features Deal floating in a fake sea with his guitar, some amps and a flamingo. The artist said he still feels “a little weird” about seeing himself in the album’s commercials.
“I was quite subversive, look at me on the album cover, it’s funny – then they started to talk about the promo,” he remembers. “I thought my face was going to be on a vinyl record. You buy it in a store, it’s going to be good. But it’s not. … I was like, ‘Oh, no, this is my mom, and now it’s in an ad for a product.’ And this was a big surprise for me.
Kim Deal’s ‘Nobody Loves You More’ was released on Friday, November 22.
Alex Da CorteAfter nearly 40 years in the music industry, Deal is used to being in the spotlight — but he rarely faces it alone. Apart from a few solo singles released in the early 2010s, he’s always been part of a band – the Pixies, the Breeders, the Amps – so making a full Kim Deal record is a new adventure. To bring No One Loves You More for a living, Deal worked with many longtime collaborators, including his twin sister, Kelley Dealand Breeders bandmates Jim McPherson. However, he said he’s excited to be in the driver’s seat this time.
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“I remember working on it Mando (Lopez) about Breeders. … We’ll be constantly, like weeks and weeks coming up with ideas and stuff like that,” Kim explained. “In this case, the song (will) be finished … and I might get a demo or figure out what we want .”
However, his sister had to do the rest of the legwork. “Kelley did have to do a sort of band thing where he came over and I wouldn’t let him go until he threw out all kinds of different guitar ideas for this song I was working on,” Kim recalled. “It was like, ‘Wait, don’t go. Just wait. Come here! I need something for this part right now.'”
Another of Kim’s frequent collaborators No One Loves You More is a legendary producer Steve Albiniwho died in May at the age of 61. The duo’s first collaborative project was the 1988 Pixies album Surfer Roseand then they joined a few Breeders LPs.
“He’s known for this punk (energy) and that’s for sure,” Kim said. “But one thing that really impressed me, one day we were doing a song called ‘Summerland,’ and it was, like, an orchestral song. … He was really respectful. He was communicative. Every headphone box worked. The mic was set up. There were chairs for everyone. Of course all the machines are on point. Everyone knows what they’re doing. It’s just so well-open, and it’s like, ‘Goddamn, it’s good at this.’ I just don’t see him like this. And to me, that’s amazing.
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Next year, Kim will embark on a supporting solo tour No One Loves You Morein hopes of making the album as accurate as possible on stage.
“I want trombones and trumpets to be there,” he said us. “I think that makes the song better!”
No One Loves You More out on Friday, November 22.
