Fans of the Breeders waited six years between the bands 2002 album Title TK Rosetta Stone and last years Mountain Battles, but Kim and Kelley Deal are back already, returning with four fresh tracks next month. On April 21st the group will release a limited-edition EP called Fate to Fatal, which features a Bob Marley cover and a tune sung by former Screaming Trees frontman and Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Mark Lanegan."Im always writing and stuff," Kim Deal says, explaining that the band recorded the title track in London during a Mountain Battles tour stop, and she laid down "The Last Time" in her basement in Ohio. "Chances Are," the Marley cover, was recorded live at Steve Albinis Chicago studio, and the last track, "Pinnacle Hollow" is one of her four-track creations. Bob Weston (of Shellac and Mission of Burma) is mastering, and the band has some special plans for its artwork Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 theyre hand screening the EPs themselves, based on a design by Chris Glass, an Ohio graphic artist who produced a new logo that will grace everything associated with President Obamas American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. "Of course we told him that it could be the swastika of his generation of things go horribly wrong," Deal says.Kim Deal stresses that fans shouldnt interpret the Bob Marley cover as a sign the bands new merch will be tie-dye. "This was in the 60s, when all the guys in Jamaica wanted to get laid they would do doo-wop," she says. "Its not reggae, Im not doing a reggae song." As for the Lanegan cameo on "The Last Time," Deal says it came together after a conversation in her basement with the guy she brought in to run her Pro Tools setup. "He was telling me that the Lanegan solo record Bubblegum Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 was really good. And I said, thats a weird name for a Lanegan record. That conversation resonated in my brain, because I thought itd be great to have a male vocal on this."If the name of the title track sounds a little heavy, Kim admits it is. "The line is What men pray for, what men cradle/Ive gone from fate to fatal. Whatever people believe with their religions, a lot of times I think people are crazy!" she says. "Its loud and obnoxious which is nice." The band has already shot the tracks video in St. Louis with an all-girl roller derby team. Kelley explains that after meeting up with a bunch of roller girls at a Cincinnati Obama benefit, and another batch at a Minnesota craft fair, all signs pointed to skates. "I was like, I can take a hint, were going to do this," Kelley says. They wound up shooting the clip with a team Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 called the Arch Rivals, which features a girl theyve kept in touch with since their parents found her wandering around alone at Lollapalooza in 1994.


