This album may have been born from the torrid professional and personal relationship of Pixies Frank Black and Kim Deal. The later was a founding member of the Breeders. The Breeders may have been concieved when Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses) while drunk and dancing together at a Sugarcubes concert in Boston.
The songs are sexual in nature, and have very unsettling content. Glorious describes an adult who has vague but pleasant memories of being molested as a child by an aunt. The song Hellbound describes a fetus that survives an abortion. Fertility is also a recurring theme not only in the song content, the bands name, the album title and album cover. The cover art was designed by Vaughan Oliver and portrays a man performing a fertility dance while wearing a belt of eels. The imagery has been described as having a “raw” feel that matches the album’s production, which was handled by Steve Albini.
Released in 1990 and produced by Steve Albini produced Pod in 1990. It is skeletal, strange, and deliberately uncomfortable. Albini was immensley influential in the making ofthe album. His production is bone-dry and confrontationally natural. The drums sound like they are played in a teenagers bedroom room. The guitars scrape rather than soar. Famously, Kurt Cobain cited it as one of his favourite albums, praising its rawness and honesty, which maybe one of the reasons that Albini was hired to produce the Nivana album In Utero.
Glorious
Doe
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Oh!
Hellbound
When I Was A Painter
Fortunately Gone
Iris
Opened
Only In 3’s
Lime House
Metal Man
I was a Teenage Shoegazer