PIXIES – “BOSANOVA” (2020 RE-ISSUE) //4ad// (Released 7th August)

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£19.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Red Vinyl, with Reproduction of Original 16 Page Booklet

2020 marks the 30th Anniversary of Bossanova, the third studio album by Pixies.

The band continued to work with Gil Norton after collaborating to such success on their platinum-selling second album Doolittle; this time choosing to record in Los Angeles over their native Boston (the track ‘Blown Away’, however, was recorded at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin during a European tour in 1989).

Their third album in as many years, 1990 was a particularly fertile time for the band with Kim Deal also having success with The Breeders, who released their debut album Pod just a few months prior.

Featuring the singles ‘Allison’ (a tribute to jazz and blues pianist Mose Allison), ‘Dig For Fire’ and ‘Velouria’, plus the first cover to feature on one of their albums ‘Cecilia Ann’ (originally by The Surftones), Bossanova showed a less primal side to the band, with surf and space rock rising to the fore. Lyrically, Black Francis is even more cryptic with a recurring sci-fi theme running throughout, which in turn influenced Vaughan Oliver’s classic planet design for the sleeve.

Tracklisting:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Cecilia Ann
            2. Rock music
            3. Velouria
            4. Allison
            5. Is she weird
            6. Ana
            7. All over the world
            8. Dig for fire
            9. Down to the well
            10. The happening
            11. Blown away
            12. Hang wire
            13. Stormy weather
            14. Havalina