Pixies: Indie Cindy ALBUM REVIEW

Pixies are one the most important bands in all of Rock music. That statement is proven true by the bands output between the years of 1987 and 1991 with albums like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, and my personal favorite Bossanova. They were weird, abrasive, and utterly wonderful. Unfortunately, the band broke up after this stellar creative streak, and the world was left to wonder what Pixies would have done if they had stayed at it.... But nobody wanted this.

"This" is Indie Cindy, and album so crushingly generic and bland, it is bound to make even the most hardcore fans of the band cringe. And if you couldn't tell that this LP was going to be bad by the three EPs that led up to it, good news, the album is literally just those three EPs repackaged! Yipee.

The album starts of with what I can honestly say is the only track that can hold a candle to Pixies past work, "What Goes Boom". However, that's not to say that this song is anything remarkable, in fact, the production all but drains this track of what little vitality it possesses, with Frank Black and all of the instrumentation sounding far too clean. The following two tracks include the only slight highlight from my EP 2 review, and the underwhelming title track. 

But honestly, that is where the bearable parts of this album essentially end, as the rest of the album is a mishmash of modern Rock cliches and poor choices. Ugh, I just can't get over how terrible songs like "Blue Eyed Hexe", and "Andro Queen" are. Seriously, this is the same band (minus Kim Deal) that produced such amazingly intense and memorable songs like "Here Comes Your Man" and "Gigantic", yet here, they sound like a bar band version of AC/DC and a pretentious electro-folk band that nobody would think twice about if they weren't the Pixies.

I could just go on and on about things that could have been better on Indie Cindy, but I'll hold off from making this a full on rant. Simply put, this LP is boring, and pretty much sounds like your run of the mill Rock band. In fact, I could see this album getting a lot of play on current rock radio, and that upsets me because I think Pixies are better than that, or at least, they used to be. Maybe I'm just being unrealistic, or maybe we should have never put the idea of a reunion out on the table.

For now, I'll be listening to the LPs that make this band one worth remembering.

2/10