Kim Deal Nobody Loves You More (2024)This is Kims debut solo album, although technically not her first release under her own name (she self-released a five-part, 10-song 7 vinyl series in 2013). Nobody Loves You Mores 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 Kimrelocated 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 inChicago and features Kelley Deal (guitar), Mando Lopez (bass) and Lindsay Glover (drums). Kim wrote the song in 2020 after attending her friend Mike Montgomerys wedding. There, the house band, The Grape Whizzers (which included members of The Buffalo Killers), jammed Jimmy Buffetts 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 original version of Are You Mine? was recorded on a Tascam 388 tape machine, but the guitar track turned up missing. Kim re-recorded the tune at Candyland Studios in Kentucky with Montgomery and the same musicians who played on the original recording, this time with the addition of a pedal steel player.Wish I Was was originally released as the instrumental b-side to Are You Mine, because Kim felt she could never make the vocals sound cool. The album version was taped during a practice with Kim playing drums and singing through an amp in the room and Mando playing bass.Summerland is named after a Florida Keys island. It was written on a ukulele given to Kim as a gift from Albini and his wife Heather, after Kim and Kelley handled the music at the couples Hawaiian wedding. The orchestra was later recorded by Albini in a single take. The title reflects Kims longstanding tradition of spending winters with her parents in the same Florida Keys house a trip they loved, but that she did not enjoy.After their passing, Kim began returning to Florida on her own, and in March 2020 she began a digital collaboration with Savages rhythm section of Fay Milton and Ayse Hassan. Kim convinced her engineer friend Ben Mumphrey to meet her in Summerland and procure the necessary equipment to overdub her parts on what would become Big Ben Beat. A few days after these sessions, Ben returned home, the COVID-19 lockdown began and Kim was trapped in the Keys for the next five monthsKim eventually drove back to her Dayton, Oh., homebase with a new Pro Tools rig and ascattered bunch of unfinished songs and demos. She and the New Orleans-based Mumphrey began working on sessions remotely, taking advantage of the formers basement studio and its vintage preamps and microphones.