Kim Deal makes her solo debut nearly 40 years after joining The Pixie – and 30 since forming The Breeders.

For a time there in the Nineties the world of American alt.rock (as I believe it was called at the time) was straddled by two female colossi called Kim.

In one corner we had Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, mistress of the abrasive, experimental and dissonant in Sonic Youth. In the other was Kim Deal, bass guitarist of The Pixies and, subsequently, lead guitarist and vocalist of The Breeders.

So it seems fitting that Kim Deal’s first solo effort arrives hot – well all right, warm – on the heels of Kim Gordon’s splendid solo efforts earlier this year.

Coast is redolent of summer sunshine, which is not what you might naturally associate with someone from Ohio who spent half her life struggling with a heroin habit. “I hate the sun, beach and watersports,” she confirms.

But the song does have its origins at the seaside, when Kim was staying in a community of keen surfers on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket back in 2000.

She’s accompanied by her identical twin sister Kelley on guitar and a rhythm section of Lindsay Glover and Mando Lopez, the Deals’ fellow Breeder, as well as the horns of the Chicago marching band Mucca Pazza.

Despite its origins in Nantucket, Deal did not write the song until 20 years later after her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding when the house band, The Grape Whizzers, jammed Jimmy Buffett’s cheesy 1977 hit Margaritaville with what she calls “revelatory levels of low self-esteem.”

Poignantly, it was one of the last recordings to be produced by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago prior to his recent death.