The Night the Zombies Came Pixies

• 1 Primrose 02:35
• 2 You're So Impatient 02:08
• 3 Jane (The Night the Zombies Came) 02:52
• 4 Chicken 04:22
• 5 Hypnotised 03:04
• 6 Johnny Good Man 03:28
• 7 Motoroller 02:42
• 8 I Hear You Mary 03:13
• 9 Oyster Beds 02:09
• 10 Mercy Me 03:54
• 11 Ernest Evans 02:42
• 12 Kings of the Prairie 02:55
• 13 The Vegas Suite 03:43
• Total Runtime 39:47

Info for The Night the Zombies Came

35 years since their groundbreaking platinum-certified album Doolittle catapulted the band into the UK Top Ten, and 20 years since their celebrated reformation at Coachella, Pixies are deep into their second act, and in the midst of a creative purple patch. The Night The Zombies Came is Pixies' tenth album, if you count their classic 1987 4AD mini-LP, Come On Pilgrim, and first new music since 2022's acclaimed Doggerel album.

13 new songs that find Pixies looking ahead to the most cinematic record of their career. Druidism, apocalyptic shopping malls, mediaeval themed restaurants, 12th century poetic form, surf rock, gargoyles, bog people, and the distinctive dry drum sound of 1970s-era Fleetwood Mac are just some of the disparate wonders that inform the new songs. The Night The Zombies Came will be released via BMG.

For the new album recording sessions, the band returned to work with producer Tom Dalgety, who drummer David Lovering refers to as “a fifth Pixie” after producing 2016’s Head Carrier, 2019’s Beneath the Eyrie and 2022’s Doggerel. Early on in the recording process at Guilford Sound studio in Vermont, the band noticed the new songs were dividing into two camps: what they came to call the “Dust Bowl Songs” - country-tinged, balladesque numbers such as ‘Primrose’ and ‘Mercy Me,’ and on the other side, the album’s punk-like numbers such as ‘You’re So Impatient’ and ‘Oyster Beds.’ Only ‘Jane (The Night the Zombies Came)’ keeps its feet in both camps — reminiscent of early ‘60s Phil Spector, it’s a track that Black Francis allegedly likened to being chased by a swarm of bees.

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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The US band Pixies, have managed to become one of the most crucial and important bands in alternative and indie rock! When the group formed in 1986 in Boston, consisting of Frank Black, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal and Davids Lovering, they probably didn't realize the impact they would have on the genre. According to the legend, in order to promote the formation of the band, Frank Black and Joey Santiago put an ad in the newspaper saying that they were looking for a bass player. Kim Deal, who at the time neither owned a bass nor could play it at all, responded.

When the rock quartet released their debut album "Surfer Rosa" in 1988 with hits like "Where Is My Mind", they didn't make it into the charts at first, but later achieved gold status in the USA. Even Kurt Cobain said about the record that with the Nirvana hit album "Nevermind" he was really just trying to imitate the Pixies. In the same year, their second album "Doolittle" was released, which included one of their top hits "Here Comes Your Man".

During the creation of their next two albums "Bossanova" and "Trompe le Monde" there is more and more tension in the band. For example, in the album "Bossanova", released in 1990, every single song is written by Black Francis aka Frank Black. And therefore not a single song was written by the bass player Kim Deal. In January 1993 Frank Black himself announced the end of the band without the knowledge of his bandmates, whereby the Pixies finally split up.

About 10 years later, the long-awaited reunion of the band took place and even in 2004, the first tour after the breakup. Funnily enough, in 2004 the Pixies can be heard with their song "Bam Thwok!" on the then and now celebrated soundtrack of Shrek 2. Another 10 years later, fans of the band could finally enjoy an album with the appropriate name "Indie Cindy" again, which could hold in the Top 10 of the German album charts for two weeks in Germany. With two more albums in 2016 and 2019, the Pixies' career is far from over. They perform just like in their early days and have managed through their countless live performances to perfect their concerts, which offers every visitor a unique and unforgettable experience!

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