The Breeders perform at the Warfield in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2023. Courtesy Sandra Jamaleddine.

SAN FRANCISCO — “Did you know this record is 30 years old?” The Breeders singer Kim Deal asked fans assembled at the Warfield Monday night, referring to the band’s sophomore album and grunge standard, Last Splash. The question was rhetorical, as the sold-out show  was meant to celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary.

“I like albums,” Deal said earlier in the set. “We’ve had a lot of fun playing this.”

In fact, it was the album’s 20th anniversary tour that reunited Kim and twin sister Kelley Deal with the band’s best known lineup in 2013, featuring bassist Josephine Wiggs and drummer Jim Macpherson. The lineup has remained intact ever since and recorded All Nerve in 2018.

The audience, the great majority of which has aged with the band, was treated to startlingly accurate recreation of the classic album. Attendees erupted for “Cannonball,” the band’s biggest hit and the second song of the evening. They screamed and cheered for each new musical element as it joined the song, from the overdriven “ah-oos” at the outset to the iconic bass line, jazzy guitar part, and even that strange blast of distortion that sounds like an old fax machine.

The Breeders played all of the songs from Last Splash; “even the weird ones,” Kim Deal said while introducing the strangely hypnotic “Roi.” For the sake of historical accuracy—Wiggs played bass in the studio— she and Macpherson swapped instruments.

Kelley Deal delivered the iconic slide guitar on slacker love anthem “No Aloha” as the crowd sang along with Kim. As twins, Kim and Kelley’s vocal harmonies were jaw-droppingly gorgeous and cut through the overdriven guitars like satin razor blades, particularly on the heartfelt “Do You Love Me Now?”

“We’re almost done with side one,” Kim Del said. “This is the time where you get up off the couch and turn the record over.”

Highlights from side two included the warbling weirdness of “Mad Lucas” and the acoustic jubilation of “Divine Hammer.” There was a rousing violin solo played by an additional touring musician introduced to the audience only as “from England” during the country-tinged cover of “Driving on 9,” originally performed by alternative folk act Ed’s Redeeming Qualities.

After a short break, the band returned for an extended encore.

“I was in a band called The Pixies” Deal said as she picked out the iconic bass line from the Pixies’ “Gigantic.” The encore included three songs from the band’s 2018 album, All Nerve: “Metagoth,” “Wait in the Car” and “Walking with a Killer.” The band was joined by Belly singer Tanya Donnelly for a cover of The Beatles “Happiness is a Warm Gun.”

Rhode Island’s Belly opened the show. Founder and frontwoman Tanya Donelly was also a founding member of The Breeders with Kim Deal.

“In our 60 combined years, we’ve never shared a stage,” she said.

Donelly, who also performed in The Throwing Muses, led the band through a 45-minute set that included the band’s biggest hit, “Feed the Tree,” as well as some of the most powerful vocal harmonies of the set with bassist and former L7 member Gail Greenwood on the overdriven and dreamy “Low Red Moon.”