The Breeders (L-R, Carrie Bradley and Kim Deal) performing Last Splash (Bell House 3.29.2013). “Saints” is just a song about going to a county or state fair and losing yourself in the crowd, a young innocent past-time in some not-quite-sub-rural Midwestern realm from which the Deals sprung. But it’s also a back-handed indictment of stasis, and, more importantly, a wonderful offer of inner hope - “summer,” after all, “is ready when you are!” More than just about any other musical document of that weird time (the one before this time), it speaks to a feeling that has never left me and one I hope to never lose…even as I can feel its dimensions shrinking.
(Photo courtesy of Kate Glicksberg a.k.a. @Interstatial)


