(4AD)
The Pixies and Breeders musician’s distinctive touch is ever present on a set that spans heartbreak, good times and strident guitars

A decade and more in the making, Kim Deal’s first solo album under her own name more than repays the wait. Nobody Loves You More distils the cult American musician’s strengths – previously flexed in the Pixies and her own bands, the Breeders and the Amps – into a tight 11 tracks that span heartbreak, good times and strident guitars.

Fans may remember the poignant sucker-punch of Are You Mine? from long-ago 2013, a song that reflects the period when her mother’s Alzheimer’s led to Deal becoming her primary carer. A rueful, yearning cut, Wish I Was, dates from the same period, while LP closer A Good Time Pushed – whose take on fun errs towards ambivalence – wrapped recording in 2022.