Ignored             Obscured              Restored

It’s time for some new tunes.  How about this one from Kim Deal who first gained fame as the bassist in the Pixies and then went on to further success with the Breeders — a solo single called “Coast.”

Several media outlets, including Rolling Stone, have reported Deal’s inspiration for the song:

“According to Deal, the song came about 4 years ago when she attended a friend’s nuptials and heard the wedding band play (Jimmy) Buffet’s “Margaritaville.”  Combined with an unsatisfying trip she took too many years ago to Nantucket – where she went to “duck and roll out of my life,” she sings – Deal concocted her own, ironic take on a bummed-out escapist tune.

Deal’s sister Kelly plays guitar, and former (Breeders) band bassist Mando Lopez also contributes.  Woozy horns and a lazy, laconic guitar lead only add to Deal’s wry observations on the local surfers checking the swells on the WAM chart: “All hold up and abandon plans for the good times/Where forgotten roads take lost lives/To beautiful kids on the coast.””

Does anybody else hear a fractured resemblance in the melody to Blondie’s “Sunday Girl?”

The track was recorded by producer Steve Albini, who died of a heart attack last May, at his Chicago studio – Electrical Audio.

Enjoy… until next week.