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Pixies

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About 'Bossanova' But Were Afraid To Ask

Martin Aston

It's 1989. In three years, Boston-based quartet Pixies have joined Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine at the forefront of uniquely inventive and visceral rock acts. Pixies songs were predominantly short and sharp, rife with frontman Black Francis' fondness for melody and noise, chopping merrily between quiet and loud, their musicianship both electrifyingly taut and gleefully unpolished...