★★★★★
For many, the music produced
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-05-22
★★★★★
Available on: Pixies Music Indie Cindy, Pixies' first album in 23 years, too often recalls its lacklustre predecessor Trompe Le Monde. With the alt-greats' once revelatory formula yielding diminishing returns, and Black's genius for inverting rock conventions waning, on Trompe Le Monde - the album we thought would be the group's last - Pixies sought refuge in the very style they set out to subvert: classic rock. Over two decades later, history repeats itself...
- www.factmag.com
2014-05-13
★★★★★
It's been a long... long time since Black Francis and Co. came out an albums' worth of material. But here it is. After 23 years we waited...and waited for the next album after Trompe le Monde. This was an album I couldn't wait to hear. The album combines the songs from the last three EP's that have been released since early 2013. And most definitely it is The Pixies... But I just don't think they broke the barriers they could have...
- www.antimusic.com
2014-05-09
★★★★★
In 2010, after spending a half-decade collecting overdue checks on an extended series of Pixies reunion tours, Black Francis laid all his cards on the table in a surprisingly candid interview with The Quietus: "This ain't about the art anymore. I did the arty farty part. Now let's talk about the money." By that point, the dollar signs in the Pixies' eyes shouldn't have been that much of a surprise...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-05-06
★★★★★
A reunion isn't "officially" a reunion until you actually put out a number of new material to warrant if such return was even necessary to begin with. There's a reason to evangelize the album format as the defining measure for artistic credibility, which is why it's the hardest for established musicians rekindling their legacy to get right...
- www.noripcord.com
2014-05-05
★★★★★
The baggage preceding the Pixies' sorta reunion album, Indie Cindy, can't be ignored, so let's just address it and get it out of the way. Yes, it's been 10 years since the group reformed. Bassist and Black Francis/Frank Black foil Kim Deal is no longer present. The 12 songs on the record were all previously released on a series of three EPs...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-05-02
★★★★★
"But everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band," Brian Eno once said about The Velvet Underground's meager-selling debut. It might be even more hyperbolic to equate that level of influence to twisted alt rock progenitors the Pixies, but I still can't help but imagine professed Pixies fan Kurt Cobain listening to "Gigantic" and scribbling notes. "I really remember thinking, 'That is such a Pixies rip,'" Dave Grohl once confessed about "Smells Like Teen Spirit"...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-05-02
★★★★★
The general consensus was that the Pixies new comeback album, Indie Cindy, was going to be an inevitable disappointment, due to the unreasonably high expectations of Pixies fans who have conglomerated into a cult-like crew. Not to mention the fact that the album is the first new material released by the band after a mere 23-year hiatus, a tactic we've seen recently from groups with similar cult followings like My Bloody Valentine...
- www.cmj.com
2014-05-01
★★★★★
Tweet Don't Call It a Comeback The Pixies are a band with a huge, looming reputation--they're one of the most loved bands to come out of the late '80s and early '90s--and their fans await their work with equally huge expectations, especially since they haven't released a full-length record since 1991's Trompe le Monde...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-04-30
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