release date: Aug. 19, 1993
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,59]
producer: Kim Deal, Mark Freegard
label: 4AD Records - nationality: USA
Tracklist: 1. "Cannonball" (5 / 5) (live - live) - 2. "Cro-Aloha" (3 / 5) - 3. "Lord of the Thighs" - 4. "900" (3 / 5)
Single release taken from the forthcoming sophomore studio album by The Breeders. At this point, Tanya Donelly has left the band to concentrate on her new band, Belly, and Kim Deal's twin sister Kelley, now replaces Donelly on guitar and vocal. Also drummer Britt Walford has left to concentrate on his primary band, Slint. Instead, the band now includes drummer Jim MacPherson - and you may call it: Breeders Mark II.
The cd single comes in a 2-track version and this one, the 4-track maxi single. The first two compositions are by Kim Deal - with the title track from the forthcoming album, and the second track, a re-take on "No Aloha", also from the Last Splash album - track #3 is a cover by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and track #4 is written by Josephine Wiggs of the band.
The title track is truly a giant of a song, which basically is the band's best ever song, and one I simply adore. The rest is more so-so with "Cro-Aloha" as a skewed near Pixies sort of song.
