Go to the Sugar Altar

Go to the Sugar Altar Artist: The Kelley Deal 6000
Label: New West Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 766923685624
EAN: 0766923685624
ASIN: B000002RB5


Release Date: 1997-06-10

Go to the Sugar Altar


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Tracks:

  1. Canyon
  2. How About Hero
  3. Dammit
  4. Sugar
  5. A Hundred Tires
  6. Head Of The Cult
  7. Nice
  8. Trixie Delicious
  9. Marooned
  10. Tick Tock
  11. Mr. Goodnight

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There's two types of identical twins in the world: those content to star in Doublemint commercials, and those who, because they find different callings and develop at different rates, must carve out separate spaces. The Deal sisters of Akron, Ohio seem of the latter category. While Kim was helping invent modern rock in the Pixies and then the Breeders, Kelley was learning how to play guitar, taking a backseat in Kim's Breeders, then getting hooked on and busted for heroin. But the prodigal sister has returned, and with her new band The Kelley Deal 6000 she blossoms into a creative force rivalling her more accomplished family member.<P> Her band's 1996 debut, <I>Go to the Sugar Altar</I>, was born out of a collaboration with musician Jesse Colin Roff while both were in a Minneapolis rehab facility. Much of the album, lyrically and musically, sounds informed by Deal's heroin experiences. Songs like the self-effacing "How About Hero" and "Canyon" are anthems to dysfunction, and Deal's brand of eccentric pop bounces between Velvets nod music and Brian Wilson at his most unbalanced. Still, Kelley gets across an easy humor and playfulness that makes <I>Go to the Sugar Altar</I> an even more likeable--if less solid--work than her previous recording appearance, on the Breeders' 1993 breakthrough <I>Last Splash</I>. When, and if, the Deal sisters ever record together again (rumors have circulated both ways), their newfound equal footing as songwriters and bandleaders should activate real Wondertwin power. And if it never happens, we'll be content to double our pleasure hearing the women soar along their separate trajectories. <I>--Roni Sarig</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Playful, pensive or mourning, Kelley Deal is a star in her own right..........2005-12-18

This debut for Breeder Kelley Deal's sideband is full of wicked riffs, canny writing, beautifully reedy, husky vocals, and pop-rock hooks that show a playfulness of spirit and yet don't lean completely to a commercially-driven musical side. This CD is pure 1996, in all its alt-rock glory, sounding much like The Breeders at their best. "Canyon" kicks it off with wonderful percussion, "How About Hero" is wonderfully rambunctious, and the rocking "Dammit" (soft...soft, then LOUD) is affecting and amusing at once. My favorite track is the just-under-two-minute "Tick Tock", which has a catchy, fuzzed-out bubblegum flavor wrung through distorted guitars and vocals. In other words, it's glorious.

3 out of 5 stars

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