Tonight I'm continuing Steve Albini's "Eyewitness Record Reviews" with - The Breeders - Pod l.p. The Breeders were a vanity project (at least at this point) for the Pixies' Kim Deal, Tanya Donnelly from the Throwing Muses, Josephine Whiggs out of Perfect Disaster, and Slint's Britt Walford. Let Mr Albini take up the tale -

For reasons too subtle to describe accurately, I really enjoyed going to Scotland and working on this. The actual record is nothing special, of course, but I have a much deeper understanding of the twin phenomena of synchronous menses and breast swelling than I previously would have drreamed. The only chafingly unpleasant thing about the experience was an unbearable xxxx-head label gopher who loitered around the  studio during those hours when he wasn't actually engaged in plugging the guitar player (the only function he truely served.) Josephine, the bass player, looks quite a bit like an emu, except that her hair is thinner. The studio owner has a pathological fear of raw eggs, and entertained us with stories about the ex-Bay City Roller he buys reef from. His wife, a voluptuous once-attractive singer, would occasionally strip down to her frillies at the bountiful dinner table. I ate haggis and enjoyed it. I pounded everybody through the album in about a week, but the label insisted we stay at the studio and dreamed up another three weeks of work for me to do. The drummer...finished one evening dancing in the arms of a Freemason  transvestite named "Dora"... the drummer went to the Anglers' Club, and didn't return until well after closing time. Presented to the front door by two anglers, each holding an elbow (the little drummer's legs had failed hours earlier), Shannon was completely blackened with soot from the fire, except for bright blue rings drawn with pool table chalk around nose and chin. Anglers, I swear! ... Fee : $4,000.