Consumer Guide Album

The Breeders: Last Splash [4AD/Elektra, 1993]
Kim Deal can't sing and neither can Kelley--not with force, anyway. But what the hey. Unabashed models of feminine weakness, they murmur, they chant, they make a pass at harmonizing, thus revealing the once-ominous tunings of sonic youths everywhere for the benign art-school move they are. No way are these songs "pop"--they won't make little children smile or Mom pat her foot. But their sweetness is no less certain for that, and considerably rarer. A−