release date: Apr. 21, 2009
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,24]
producer: Ben Mumphrey, Steve Albini, Gareth Parton
label: Period Music* - nationality: USA
Tracklist: 1. "Fate to Fatal" (3,5 / 5) - 2. "The Last Time" (feat. Mark Lanegan) - 3. "Chances Are" - 4. "Pinnacle Hollow"
Ep release by The Breeders and their first not to be issued on 4AD. Although, only released one year after Mountain Battles, the ep demonstrates another style with more focus on more traditional rock, which may be seen on 3 of the 4 songs. Only the title track sounds like something that would have fitted nicely on the 2007 album, whereas the others are slower and much more pop / rock and folk rock-shaped. The track "The Last Time" sounds like something by The National - here with Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan on lead vocals. The Bob Marley cover "Chances Are" is fine with its lo-fi sound / minimal instrumentation performed as a doo wop ballad with clear focus on lyrical output, and the closing song "Pinnacle Hollow" is basically a folk rock song with more folk than rock sounding like a jam session in the early 70s with Buffalo Springfield and in that way is afar from any song on the 2007 album and any other songs by The Breeders making this ep a bit of a mixed bag.
