Title TK by The Breeders

Title TK, the Breeders' third studio album, came out in May 2002 on 4AD in the UK, and its name is newsroom shorthand for a title still to come. It was a long time arriving. After Last Splash, the lineup scattered until Kim Deal was the only one left, and a 1997 attempt at a follow-up went nowhere.

In 1999 Kim and her sister Kelley started over in Chicago with Steve Albini, joined by Mando Lopez and Richard Presley of Fear and drummer Jose Medeles, and kept at it through 2001. The result is stripped to the bone: sparse arrangements, odd sounds dropped in from nowhere, dark, oblique lyrics and the Deal sisters' harmonies front and center. Albini makes every instrument sound like it's in the room with you. Kim wrote ten of the twelve songs alone, and "Off You", "Huffer" and "Son of Three" were the singles.

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