“Glorious” by The Breeders

"Glorious" comes from Pod, the Breeders' debut album, released by 4AD in May 1990, and Kim Deal wrote it with Ray Halliday. The band had come together in 1988, when Deal, then playing bass in the Pixies, struck up a friendship with Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses on a European tour.

A country-flavored demo in 1989 got 4AD co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell to bankroll a full album, and that same year the band cut it in Edinburgh, at the Palladium studio, with Steve Albini engineering. Albini cared more about how things sounded than how well they were played, so the keepers were the loose, spontaneous takes the band played live in the room: Deal singing and playing guitar, Donelly on guitar, Josephine Wiggs on bass and Britt Walford on drums.

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