THE BREEDERS: All Nerve

Listen up, grrrrls: '90s nostalgia is in full-blown feminine bloom.  Belly is back in the studio, L7 is back on the road, D'arcy Wretzky is back to fighting with Billy Corgan.  And no class reunion would be complete without Kim Deal, onetime darling of the MTV Buzz Bin.  The Breeders are one of those time-capsule bands that somehow went platinum in the grunge-happy frenzy which immediately followed Nirvana- and amazingly, it's been 25 years already.

For their new disc All Nerve, frontwoman Kim Deal reunites with sister Kelley Deal, bassist Josephine Wiggs, and drummer Jim Macpherson- the classic lineup that made Last Splash an unlikely Billboard splash back in 1993.  The songs are as weird, fuzzy and reverb-heavy as ever.  Nervous Mary is all chugging guitars, twin harmonies and vaguely ominous lyrics.  First single Wait In The Car is a punky sketch of a singalong.  Spacewoman is the longest track at just over four minutes, and it's also probably the best- a dark sprawl of a jam that lives up to its title.

In case you're wondering, there’s no big lightning-in-a-bottle single.  Anybody who’s been waiting 25 years to hear another radio-ready smash like Cannonball will have to keep waiting.  But diehard fans will be plenty happy with All Nerve- these 11 songs could sit on the same shelf as Pod or Last Splash.  Or better yet, on a channel surfed by Beavis and Butthead.  B