Pixies Trompe Le Monde (180 Gram Vinyl)

Pixies Trompe Le Monde (180 Gram Vinyl)The Pixies: Black Francis (vocals, guitar); Kim Deal (vocals, bass); Joey Santiago (guitar); David Lovering (drums). Additional personnel: Eric Drew Feldman (keyboards, synthesizer); Jef Feldman (tabla, dumbek). Recorded at Master Control and Pacifique, Burbank, California, Studio Des Dames, Paris, and Blackwing, London, England. The title might be French for "fool the world," but with Trompe le Monde, the Pixies weren't fooling anyone: this was

I'll just decide to move on

playing tunes penned by friends

Nowhere does producer Ric Ocasek define his trademark refined power pop style more than with Weezer

the album's head-scratching moments are outweighed by the near-brilliant ones

with strong associations of rootlessness

returning to the sound and producer of their successful debut

and Asian-tinged keyboard melodies

and Matador in the U

So There finds the musician partnering with the experimental Brooklyn chamber ensemble yMusic on eight new tunes referred to as "8 chamber rock songs" on the record's packaging

The killer "You Know Who We Are" is perhaps the first recorded fusion of gypsy-punk and Mexican cumbia

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but by now