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Pixies Christen Next Album ‘The Night The Zombies Came’

by Paul Cashmere on July 25, 2024

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Pixies ninth album has been christened ‘The Night The Zombies Came’. (Call it 10 if you count the 1987 mini album ‘Come On Pilgrim’).

Check out ‘Chicken’.

Songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist Black Francis explains, “Fragments that are related and juxtaposed with other fragments in other songs. And in a collection of songs in a so-called LP, you end up making a kind of movie.”

The Night the Zombies Came sessions also saw Pixies welcoming new bass player Emma Richardson (Band Of Skulls) to the lineup, the first British band member to join the Pixies. There’s also an expanded role for guitarist Joey Santiago. After contributing his first-ever Pixies lyrics on Doggerel, for the new record, Santiago wrote the words to ‘Hypnotised’ by completing a complex lyrical riddle of sorts, known as a sestina.

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