Mountain Battles

Review

Mountain Battles

(4AD)
Release Date: 04/08/2008 12:00

In 2004, following lackluster sales of Title TK, Elektra dropped the Breeders, ending a relationship that had been forged with the Pixies 15 years earlier. Mountain Battles picks up where its predecessor left off: The skeletal, slackerly songs don’t sound like they were written so much as sloughed off in a single all-night session. The result is ramshackle and slight but often gorgeous, whether it’s the hypnotic, twisted-nursery-rhyme bop of “Bang On” or the lush “We’re Gonna Rise,” a perfect driving song for falling asleep at the wheel.

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