Pixies "Doggerel" Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl g/fold + inner new/sealed 2022

Description: Pixies "Doggerel" Infectious Music – INFECT701ELP New and SealedLimited Edition Yellow Vinyl g/fold + inner new/sealed and released in 2022. The vinyl has not been played and is still sealed, so the condition of both the LP and the sleeve is mint. The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986, in Boston, Massachusetts. Until 2013, the band consisted of Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, vocals) and David Lovering (drums). They disbanded acrimoniously in 1993 but reunited in 2004. After Deal left in 2013, the Pixies hired Kim Shattuck as a touring bassist; she was replaced later that year by Paz Lenchantin, who became a permanent member in 2016. The Pixies are associated with the 1990s alternative rock boom, and draw on elements including punk rock and surf rock. Their music is known for dynamic "loud-quiet-loud" shifts and song structures. Francis is the Pixies' primary songwriter; his often surreal lyrics cover offbeat subjects such as extraterrestrials, incest, and biblical violence. The band achieved modest popularity in the US but was more successful in Europe. Their jarring pop sound influenced acts such as Nirvana, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer. The Pixies' popularity grew in the years after their breakup, leading to a 2004 reunion, sold-out world tours and four further albums: "Indie Cindy" (2014), "Head Carrier" (2016), "Beneath the Eyrie" (2019) and "Doggerel" (2022). "Doggerel" is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Pixies, released on September 30, 2022, by BMG Rights Management. It was produced by Tom Dalgety and preceded by the singles "There's a Moon On", "Vault of Heaven" and "Dregs of the Wine". The band recorded the album at Guilford Sound, an eco-friendly studio in Guilford, Vermont, with producer Tom Dalgety, with the basis for some tracks being the significant number of demos Black Francis had recorded in the time following the band's previous album, "Beneath the Eyrie". The process of making the album was also filmed for a short documentary released in June 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted recording, resulting in the individual band members working on tracks at their homes. In a press release, Black Francis stated that the band were "trying to do things that are very big and bold and orchestrated" on the album. He elaborated, "The punky stuff, I really like playing it but you just cannot artificially create that shit. There's another way to do this, there's other things we can do with this extra special energy that we're encountering." Guitarist Joey Santiago expressed that the band "have grown. We no longer have under two-minute songs. We have little breaks, more conventional arrangements but still our twists in there". The album also marks the first time Santiago has received song-writing credits on a Pixies album, having contributed music to "Dregs of the Wine" and lyrics to "Pagan Man". Described by Black Francis as "an unfinished bit of music that the producer kept insisting that we try again," "Pagan Man" was the last song recorded for the album. "I was not in the mood to compose a lyric because I was already spent, if you will. So Joey wrote the lyric." Santiago explains that he had never been motivated to write for Pixies, as Black Francis was always competent to perform that role, but the downtime during the recording sessions resulted in the guitarist tinkering with these two songs and him presenting it to his bandmates. "Doggerel" received a score of 73 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on twelve critics' reviews, indicating "generally favourable" reception. Jamie Wilde of The Skinny wrote that the band "offer fans something new with their material; something more conventional, sophisticated and orchestrated" than their output of the late 1980s. Wilde also felt that "some choruses on tracks like Vault of Heaven do verge on feeling a bit bland" but that Black Francis's "inimitable vocal twangs still remain and he still has plenty to say yet". Reviewing the album for The Line of Best Fit, Christopher Hamilton-Peach wrote that "Doggerel" has an abundance of "riffs and rockabilly nods" and "finds the American alternative mainstays reinstating bittersweet peaks and ironic edge". Hamilton-Peach elaborated that the album "revolves between the erringly melodic and angst-filtered", calling "The Lord Has Come Back Today" an "upbeat ditty" and describing "You're Such a Sadducee" as having "esoteric-themed acerbic punk bite". Ben Lynch of Loud and Quiet called "Doggerel" "the best Pixies record since they've reformed", writing that the band "rips through a range of styles, from furious grunge to acoustic pop swoons, often, if not always, with a gusto that on occasions almost gets you feeling excited again". Iain Key of Louder Than War named it "Album of the Week" and found it to be "an instant album which should please fans young and old" that listeners "will want to play loud, with Dave Lovering's drumming as taut and powerful as ever creating the perfect engine room with Paz Lenchantin now established on bass".

Price: 35 GBP

Location: St. Leonards-on-Sea

End Time: 2025-02-07T16:14:23.000Z

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