Last Splash

NPR ranked the record as the #144 greatest album made by a female artist, saying:

How good must it have felt for Kim Deal to release the eclectic masterpiece Last Splash with her band The Breeders? Throughout the seven years prior to the album’s 1993 release, she had made influential (but not very commercially successful) music alongside Frank Black in the Pixies, a band in which she never received credit she deserved. While Pixies is often name-checked for inspiring the likes of Nirvana to embrace dramatic dynamic shifts, Kurt Cobain bemoaned that more of Kim’s songwriting wasn’t featured on their albums. But on Last Splash, The Breeders' second album, Deal’s songwriting moved front and center (with some co-writing from her twin sister Kelley, who was also in the band), and what was once her side project became her main gig. It left no question about her talents, as the album sold more than Frank’s solo debut or any of the Pixies' albums. The brilliant Last Splash was also built for shifting attention spans: Its short songs ranged from the cotton candy single ‘Divine Hammer’ to a grungy, racing instrumental ’S.O.S.,' which would later be sampled by U.K. big beat artist The Prodigy in its hard-driving international hit ‘Firestarter.’ In the age of the baby doll dress, Deal confidently stepped out bare-faced, in jeans and a t-shirt, and with a smile that said that nothing could be more fun than leading The Breeders.

Yes, Last Splash was certified platinum by the RIAA on June 28, 1994.