The Pixies Release Another Surprise EP

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pixiesEveryone’s favorite reunited-for-the-money-but-who-cares-they’re-awesome rockers The Pixies have certainly learned something about staying in the news. In remarkably well-timed intervals, the OG college rockers lost their founding bassist, replaced the bassist, released a surprise EP, fired the replacement, hired a re-replacement, and have now released another surprise EP.

EP2 is another four-song set, featuring the titles Blue-Eyed Hexe, Magdalena, Greens and Blues, and Snakes. Like its predecessor, it’s available via download from the band’s website as well as a limited vinyl edition.

Frontman Frank Black suggests that the track Greens and Blues is a spiritual successor to the band’s classic Gigantic, a song sung by ex-bassist Kim Deal: It was my attempt to come up with another song that would “ musically, emotionally and psychologically “ sit in the same place that ˜Gigantic’ has sat, he says. Not that I could ever replace that song: you write songs and they come out the way they come out. So perhaps it can be said that this song fills the emotional niche that ˜Gigantic’ occupied, another show-closer. I think the lyric alludes to that, the fact that it’s the end of the night, the end of something. And a separation if you will, between the band and the audience. So I guess it’s kind of a goodbye song, or really more of a ˜good night’ song.

Check out “Blue-Eyed Hexe” below:

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