On the fifth Breeders album, the songs are all cinematic movement – hiding, escaping, screaming in the meadow, running for the exit. Such is life as the Breeders' Kim Deal, a rock genius with a powderkeg of bittersweet melodies and fearless emotions forever ready to blow, but often without a band to light the fuse. (This has been her own doing, at times.) On 2010's Mountain Battles,
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: The Breeders Return to Dynamic Drama of Nineties Heyday on ‘All Nerve’