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<\/a><\/p>\nIt didn\u2019t matter that after their tour launch at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was cut short by weather, the Breeders played their first Last Splash 30 set in a concrete pit in Columbus. Sure, it would have been an infinitely more cathartic experience if the Breeders had played in the open air instead of in Kemba Live\u2019s indoor bunker. But again, that didn\u2019t matter. They could have played any room, that\u2019s the Kim Deal promise.<\/p>\n
The Last Splash 30 tour, in which the band starts by playing the iconic album in full, seems like a victory lap, but it\u2019s not. There are plenty of miles left in Deal\u2019s long game. And that\u2019s exactly how it\u2019s felt, like a long game. Deal has outlived\u2014both literally and figuratively\u2014many of the alternative nation, Lollapalooza heroes with which she had to compete. Those burnt-out re-fits still around couldn\u2019t hold a candle to Deal\u2019s vigor on this night.<\/p>\n
What seems impossible is that in that long game, Deal has created a perfect half-dozen masterpieces in 32 years of existence, with Last Splash\u2019s predecessor, Pod,<\/i> being the first. But there was more: Deal made Pacer<\/i> (credited to the Amps), Title TK<\/i> (an underrated masterpiece), Mountain Battles<\/i> (a weird transitional masterpiece), and All Nerve<\/i> (the bonafide return to 1993 form masterpiece). It was during the encore that the hungry crowd of obsessives got their manna. \u201cGo Man Go,\u201d an unassuming leftover from the recording of Last Splash<\/i>, was as invigorating as anything on the record and anything Frank Black was doing post\u2013Pixies mach one.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that the Breeders could play Last Splash<\/i> blindfolded. With a new addition to the group, multi-instrumentalist Sophie Galpin of the band Soak, Deal and company have found new ways to resuscitate the standards. Galpin added a distorted layer of guitar to the classics and beefed up the monster tracks that often get dismissed on the album, like \u201cFlipside,\u201d \u201cRoi,\u201d and \u201cS.O.S.\u201d It showed how this timeless piece of art is not a relic, but pliable and able to be manipulated into something even bigger and stronger. The long game gains strength with time.<\/p>\n
Deal, in a recent Guardian<\/i> interview, spoke openly about her first solo record coming next year, revealing that her lengthy marination in her work is not only intentional but needed for her survival. During the encore, the band sauntered through one of Deal\u2019s most elegiac songs, \u201cWalking with a Killer,\u201d and it could have been played alone with a battered and bruised acoustic guitar and it would maintain its power. But instead, the band backed her up, and the crowd was her army. Deal\u2019s a rock god above all else. That she\u2019s still packing theaters and concrete pits is a testament to this. The long game has endured, and as a result, Last Splash<\/i> is just about as good as any album in defining an era but also contains a sound that defines a generation at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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