When All Nerve, The Breeders’ fifth album, comes out March 2 on 4AD, it will be the band’s first record in 10 years; the first to feature the classic lineup since the group’s hit 1993 LP, Last Splash (singer-guitarist Kim Deal, 56; guitarist Kelley Deal, 56; bassist Josephine Wiggs, 55; and drummer Jim MacPherson, 54); and the first time that Kim has recorded digitally. “Doing analog work is kind of expensive, and Kelley and Josephine were like, ‘I don’t mind going into a digital studio, Kim — ahem, ahem,’” she recalls. Here, Kim describes the group’s still-complicated dynamic.
When you got everyone together in the studio, did it snap back into place right away, or was there some adjustment?
It was a little bit of both. It feels really…