PIXIES celebrate Trompe Le Monde’s 30th anniversary this September

PIXIES celebrate Trompe Le Monde's 30th anniversary this September 1
Pixies photographed by Tony Barrett

For its 30th anniversary, Pixies 1991 album, Trompe Le Monde, is being reissued on limited marbled green vinyl, out September 24th 2021.

Bookending a golden run of landmark records – a mini-album followed by four albums, released in quick succession – Trompe Le Monde cemented Pixies as one of the best for a generation.

Translated from French to mean “fool the world,” Trompe Le Monde showed the band still restless to push their sound forward.  Recorded between Burbank, Paris, and London, with producer Gil Norton again at the controls, their fourth album is arguably their most playful, with Black Francis’s lyrics on UFOs and conspiracy theories keeping things weird while power pop creeps in to amplify the space rock established on predecessor Bossanova.

Featuring singles ‘Planet of Sound’, ‘Alec Eiffel’, ‘Letter to Memphis’, and a flawless cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Head On’, Trompe Le Monde goes full throttle with 15 tracks coming in a quickfire 40-minute salvo.  Receiving critical praise at the time and being supported by a huge tour that included playing stadiums with U2, it also proved to be the end of act one for the band, with them taking over a decade before returning to the stage together.

A brilliant record, Trompe Le Monde sounds just as fresh 30 years on with outlets such as Pitchfork concurring; retrospectively scoring it 9.3, they called it “more aggressive than anything in their catalog but also more confident.  They can handle this now, and they do.”

Trompe Le Monde

Pixies finally return to the road this September, playing a run of shows, festivals + 2 nights with Nine Inch Nails.

Their next shows in Europe are scheduled for Summer 2022, with UK shows currently planned in both June and August.  All upcoming dates can be found listed on their website – pixiesmusic.com.

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