Following the critical success of “Doolittle” in ‘89, Pixies’ third studio album “Bossanova” had big shoes to fill. But the band was seeing itself split apart as most members moved to Los Angles from Boston while the bassist Kim Deal stayed in the UK recording the debut of her project Breeders. But despite the red flags, Pixies was able to release a solid third album that took a more direct approach to pop-rock while still being weirder than most other indie rock bands of the time. But despite being a solid record, it could not compete with the lightning-in-a-bottle energy of the first two albums.
Within rock canon, there is always a harbinger of the times. An artist or band that defines the course of music for years, decades or more. The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Nirvana catch most of the credit for their respective eras, but few bands have had such a simultaneously ubiquitous but concealed influence as the Pixies. Credited with inventing grunge, the Pixies made pop-rock songs that could be both loud and quiet, sweet and sludgy, pious and irreverent. Their sound blends punk and surf rock for songs about edgy topics and graphic lyrics about eyes splitting, biblical violence and famously, aliens. Though largely ignored in their heyday, they would grow a cult following after their eventual break-up, allowing the band to reunite on top of the world. The music they wrote in the late ‘80s would influence guitar music of the next 30 years, from Radiohead to Wolf Alice, Weezer to Wavves.
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