He’s had to tone down his vocal range, age I imagine is catching up with Black Francis’ vocal chords. On Graveyard Hill thus starts in a rather toned down formulaic fashion. However a minute in, just as you were beginning to wonder, a tsunami of excitement, melody and chaos kicks in. The fuzzed guitars and bass are unmistakably passionate, a shot of adrenaline, a call to war to an army of goosebumps. It wouldn’t at all be out of place in the early 90s, the era which belongs to Pixies. I even detected the fullsome buzz of Sugar, brother-in-arms of the then big ‘fuck off indie rock’ sound.
Pixies’ new studio album, ‘Beneath the Eyrie’, will be released September 13th 2019. Pre-orders for these items can be placed at pixiesmusic.com.
Pixies will support ‘Beneath the Eyrie’ with a 2019- 2020 world tour that kicks off Saturday, August 31st at the Daydream Festival in Pasadena, CA. They will then head to the UK for its first European tour in two years that begins September 13th:
AUGUST
31 Daydream Festival, Pasadena, CA
SEPTEMBER
13 Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, UK
14 Pavilions, Plymouth, UK
16 O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK
17 O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
18 O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
20 Alexandra Palace, London, UK
21 O2 Academy, Newcastle, UK
22 O2 Academy, Glasgow, UK
23 Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK
25 Ulster Hall, Belfast, UK
26 Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
29 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
30 Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden
OCTOBER
1 KB Hallen, Denmark, Copenhagen
3 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
4 O13 Poppodium, Tilburg, The Netherlands
5 Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
7 Palladium, Cologne, Germany
8 Lucerna Music Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
9 Gasometer, Vienna, Austria
11 Estragon, Bologna, Italy
12 Todays at OGR, Turin, Italy
13 X-Tra, Zurich, Switzerland
15 Tonhalle, Munich, Germany
16 Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
17 Luxexpo, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
19 L’Olympia, Paris, France
20 Le Radiant, Lyon, France
21 Le Liberte, Rennes, France
23 Sant Jordi Club, Barcelona, Spain
24 Riviera, Madrid, Spain
25 Campo Pequeno, Lisbon, Portugal
26 Coliseum, Galicia, Spain