Kim Deal: a fascinating interviewee
On this week's Guardian Music Weekly, Kim Deal joins us on the eve of the release of the Breeders' critically acclaimed new album, Mountain Battles. The one-time Pixies bassist and full-time Breeders frontwoman makes for a fascinating interviewee, managing to be both candid and obtuse when telling Rosie Swash about life in the Pixies, her relationship with Frank Black (also referred to by his birth name, Charles) and sobriety.
Also in this week's pod, post-punk gets a facelift with the 24-year-old former soap star, Ebony Bones, and her candidly titled single, Don't Fart on my Heart. Former Mercury Prize winner Roni Size is back without the drum-and-bass but with a new track called Don't Hold Back. And Kim Deal's old bandmate, now going by the name Black Francis, honours the ancient Greeks in his new song, The Seus. To review this track platter, Paul MacInnes and Rosie are joined by Guardian critic - and retiring Readers Recommend guru - Dorian Lynskey.
Finally, French rock duo John and Jehn join Rosie in the pod to play an acoustic version of their song, Fear Fear Fear, and to talk about how being both a couple and bandmates only helps the creative process. That, and a shared interest in freeform jazz and Joy Division.
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