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Title: Oh, What might have been!
Review: Not everyone can warm up to the Breeders' sound. A lot of the songs on this album define "alternative". Many sound like song fragments rather than complete works; others are simply too uncommercial to appeal to the mainstream. Still, the album works its spell, and the more tuneful selections draw you in again and again so that eventually you come to appreciate the less accessible tracks. Kim Deal has a cutesy voice on many songs, but the band's fuzz guitar is a perfect counterpoint to this. Only the song "Divine Hammer" seems to be full cutesy, folkie overload. Still, it's wonderful.The band had many many problems after this album, and so "Last Splash" is pretty much the only studio document of this, the best lineup of the Breeders.Like the Pretenders, the Breeders will go down in history with the question "What the Heck Happened?" following them, but this album is excellent and worthwhile.
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