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    Pixies

    Aug 18, 2020 1 minute

    Bossanova 4AD

    This monkey went to Venus…

    Having cast himself as the unhinged oracle of grisly mythical proto-grunge on (’88) and (’89), Pixies’ Black Francis rematerialised in 1990 as noir rock’s Man From Planet X, his slasher-flick aesthetic (reissued in red vinyl for its thirtieth anniversary), Joey Santiago’s guitars took on a rocket-ship gleam (see ), Dave Lovering’s drums a propulsive blast (ditto), and Francis’s breathless alt.pop a gruesome fascination with loving the alien.

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