
The Breeders - Last Splash - LP
A defining album of the 90s, Last Splash by The Breeders turns 30 this year. To celebrate, the band have returned to the original tapes to give it it's first-ever remaster, and by doing so have also unearthed two lost tracks that will delight fans. Recorded by the 'classic' Breeders line-up of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson and featuring singles 'Cannonball' and 'Divine Hammer', Last Splash was "an alt-rock classic" (Pitchfork's Top 100 Records of 1990s) on release; a fast seller too, quickly attaining Platinum status in the US. Despite having had the boxset treatment on it's 20th birthday, the album was still left to be remastered so 10 years on, the original ½" tapes were taken out of the archives and have been lovingly worked on by Kim Deal, Benjamin Mumphrey and Miles Showell (Abbey Road). Never sounding so good, the album for it's 30th anniversary, it's getting the ultimate vinyl pressing. Entitled Last Splash (the 30th Anniversary Original Analog Edi