Kim Deal has been in the music business for a long time, but she still encountered some surprises while making her first solo album. Choosing the cover art for Nobody Loves You More presented the Breeders frontwoman, 63, with a whole host of options she’d never considered before — for instance, putting her own face on the record. “Somebody at the label said, ‘You know, you could be on it,’” Deal exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of her album’s Friday, November 22, release.
“And I was like, ‘I could be on it, couldn’t I?’ Why not? I don’t have a better idea.” The final product features Deal afloat on a faux sea with her guitar, some amps and a flamingo. The artist said she is still feeling “a little weird” about seeing herself in ads for the album.
“I think this is quite subversive, look at me on the album cover, this is funny — and then they start to talk about promo,” she recalled. “I’m thinking my face will be on the vinyl record. You buy it at the store, it’ll be fine.
But no. ..
. It’s like, ‘Oh, no, that’s my motherf—in’ face, and it’s on an advertisement for a product now.’ And that was a big surprise for me.
” After nearly 40 years in the music industry, Deal is used to being in the spotlight — but she’s rarely faced it alone. With the exception of several solo singles she released in the early 2010s, she’s always been part of a band — Pixies, the Breeders, the Amps — so making a full-length Kim Deal reco.
