Kim Deal is back with a vengeance with her debut solo single Coast which aired on Craig Charles 6 Music show today. It has all her hallmark brilliance with horny horns and gives you a taste of what’s to come from the heart of Pixies early stuff she stamped her mark on and still divides opinion from hardcore Pixies fans who reckon latter bass players just don’t have her magic sparkle.
Kim Deal of Dayton, Ohio, shares Coast, the first single through 4AD under her own name. The song is available worldwide today.
Coast was written in 2020 after being at her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding when the house band, The Grape Whizzers, jammed Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 Margaritaville with “revelatory levels of low self-esteem.” But the song’s roots reach back as far as 2000, when Kim was staying on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. An unlikely retreat for the Ohio native (“I hate the sun, beach and watersports,”), she spent a rough off-season where young workers “check the WAM” for surfing conditions.
Coast was recorded by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. Lindsay Glover and Breeders alum Mando Lopez are the song’s rhythm section, Kim’s sister Kelley plays guitar and horns are by Chicago marching band Mucca Pazza.
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