Nobody Loves You More’s oldest songs are “Are You Mine?” and “Wish I Was.” Both were written and originally recorded shortly after the Pixies’ “Lost Cities Tour” (2011), after which Kim relocated to L.A. to work on new songs with musician friends including former Breeders member Mando Lopez. Earlier versions of these songs were featured on the 2013 vinyl series.
First single “Coast” was recorded by the late Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago and features Kelley Deal (guitar), Mando Lopez (bass) and Lindsay Glover (drums). Kim wrote the song in 2020 after attending her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding. There, the house band, The Grape Whizzers (which included members of The Buffalo Killers), jammed Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” with “revelatory levels of low self-esteem.”
The roots of “Coast” actually reach back as far as 2000, when Kim was staying on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket (quite an unlikely retreat for someone who hates “the sun, beach and watersports”). There, she spent a rough off-season among young surfers who were constantly “check(ing) the WAM” for water conditions.
The album’s final recording took place in November 2022, with Albini, Kelley and former Breeder Jim Macpherson contributing to “A Good Time Pushed.” Mixing sessions then took place in London with Marta Salogni. Former Breeder Britt Walford also appears on Nobody Loves You More, as do new collaborators such as The Greenhorns’ Jack Lawrence.
Designed by Alex Da Corte, the album artwork touches on the doomed final voyage by conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared while traversing the Atlantic Ocean from west to east in 1975. Da Corte showed Kim a photo of Ader taken by his wife just before he set sail, and it spoke to her current obsession with the concept of failure. Now, here on the cover, is Kim re-enacting her own voyage.
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