The Breeders wage Mountain Battles on new album

This just in: You can upgrade the Breeders' album production rate from glacial to... uh... glacial (those things are melting faster every day, you know). As RollingStone.com and a whole mess of other sites reported yesterday, the Kim and Kelley Deal-led collective will release Mountain Battles on April 8 of next year, a scant six years after Title TK arrived on the scene. Of course, over those six years, Kim Deal got sucked into the whole Pixies reunion hysteria, which probably slowed down work on the record a wee bit. So what does Mountain Battles sound like, Kim?

“We did a little bit more overdubs,” Deal told Rolling Stone. “Title TK is the five of us playing basically. That’s how the practices sounded, that’s what we played. But I found I didn’t want to do that this time. I was okay with, oh, let’s have a guitar part that obviously nobody in the band can be playing right now.”

Besides the Deal sisters, Mountain Battles includes the familiar TK rhythm section of Mando Lopez (bass) and Jose Medeles (drums). Steve Albini, Erika Sharkey and Manny Nieto all handled production at some point for the album's scattershot sessions.

Mountain Battles track list:

1. Overglazed
2. Bang On
3. Night Of Joy
4. We're Gonna Rise
5. German Studies
6. Spark
7. Istanbul
8. Walk It Off
9. Regalame Esta Noche
10. Here No More
11. No Way
12. It's The Love
13. Mountain Battles

You can hear "We're Gonna Rise" streaming on the Breeders' newly-launched MySpace page. How's it sound? Think a sleepy-eyed slow-burner in the mold of TK's "Off You." It's almost as if the group never left the studio.

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