Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago
This pretty much occurred by accident and it is a little bit of a hot mess but I kind of like it. I was figuring out the chord structure and I holed my self up in my basement and spent a few hours ping ponging live low fi tracks. Not saying this is even correctly played. It is experimental acoustic, kind of weird with me singing in my regular register and then doing a falsetto to get in that Paz range. Tell me what you think. My utmost apologies to the Pixies whose music inspires me.
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Album Review: Pixies "Head Carrier" - Repentance, Heartbreak, Perversion And A Whole Lot Of Tenderness (EXCERPT)
Within the hallowed walls of sound buried in the Pixies seventh album Head Carrier, Black Francis once again mines Catholic mythology while stirring in the stuff of life and of being in bands, iconic and not, all the while injecting in tenderness in the tales of broken love and dysfunctional souls.
The title song is steeped in the story of the Christian martyr Saint Denis who while the Bishop of Paris was decapitated and as the mythology goes picked up his own head and walked six miles while preaching a sermon of repentance. The track is big, dirty and brash in the best Pixies way and sounds so incredibly potent without feeling over produced. In a direct effort to shake things up Black Francis and Joey Santiago decided to move away from the familiarity of famed Liverpool Producer Gil Norton who worked on 1991's Trompe Le Monde, 1989's Doolittle, 1990's Bossanova and 2014's Indie Cindy (and related EP1 and EP2) to another English producer Tom Dalgety (Royal Blood, Killing Joke, Opeth).
This desire to move out of their comfort zone, to step up as it were has resulted in a defining record full of songs that have that Pixies proto punk punch but also have a sense of playfulness and new beginnings. It feels like Black Francis and the crew has once again found that youthful exuberance. Take, for example, the track Classic Masher with the half time drum beat done in that "Be My Baby" Ronettes sort of way. It conjures up an almost 60's sock hop torture tone while feeling earnest in an Americana rock kind of way. I mean Bruce Springsteen could do this song and it wouldn't sound odd. I say this not in a derisive way, the song hooked me in immediately with the sweet non pretentious vibe and jubilant chorus.
READ it in it's entirety at Americanpancake.com
This pretty much occurred by accident and it is a little bit of a hot mess but I kind of like it. I was figuring out the chord structure and I holed my self up in my basement and spent a few hours ping ponging live low fi tracks. Not saying this is even correctly played. It is experimental acoustic, kind of weird with me singing in my regular register and then doing a falsetto to get in that Paz range. Tell me what you think. My utmost apologies to the Pixies whose music inspires me.
Head Carrier Review: americanpancake.com/2016/09/album-review-pixies-head-carrier.html
Please Donate to keep my Music Blog going: gofund.me/99afb870
Like the blog on Facebook: facebook.com/americanpancake
I am @americanrobb on Instagram
Album Review: Pixies "Head Carrier" - Repentance, Heartbreak, Perversion And A Whole Lot Of Tenderness (EXCERPT)
Within the hallowed walls of sound buried in the Pixies seventh album Head Carrier, Black Francis once again mines Catholic mythology while stirring in the stuff of life and of being in bands, iconic and not, all the while injecting in tenderness in the tales of broken love and dysfunctional souls.
The title song is steeped in the story of the Christian martyr Saint Denis who while the Bishop of Paris was decapitated and as the mythology goes picked up his own head and walked six miles while preaching a sermon of repentance. The track is big, dirty and brash in the best Pixies way and sounds so incredibly potent without feeling over produced. In a direct effort to shake things up Black Francis and Joey Santiago decided to move away from the familiarity of famed Liverpool Producer Gil Norton who worked on 1991's Trompe Le Monde, 1989's Doolittle, 1990's Bossanova and 2014's Indie Cindy (and related EP1 and EP2) to another English producer Tom Dalgety (Royal Blood, Killing Joke, Opeth).
This desire to move out of their comfort zone, to step up as it were has resulted in a defining record full of songs that have that Pixies proto punk punch but also have a sense of playfulness and new beginnings. It feels like Black Francis and the crew has once again found that youthful exuberance. Take, for example, the track Classic Masher with the half time drum beat done in that "Be My Baby" Ronettes sort of way. It conjures up an almost 60's sock hop torture tone while feeling earnest in an Americana rock kind of way. I mean Bruce Springsteen could do this song and it wouldn't sound odd. I say this not in a derisive way, the song hooked me in immediately with the sweet non pretentious vibe and jubilant chorus.
READ it in it's entirety at Americanpancake.com
