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Pixies - EP1 album

  • Performer: Pixies
  • Genre: Rock
  • Title: EP1
  • Released: 2013
  • Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Punk
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1176 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1156 mb
  • Other: AC3 XM APE RA AUD DTS AAC
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 982

Description

Genre: Alternative Rock. This music wasn’t just written or recorded without any regard to the quality of the Pixies legacy, it was done so without regard to songwriting quality at all.

It can be difficult to hear this new EP from Pixies over the sound of the alarm bells ringing since bassist Kim Deal’s departure.

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EP1 is a 2013 EP by American alternative rock band Pixies. Apart from the 2004 single "Bam Thwok" and a cover of Warren Zevon's "Ain't That Pretty At All", this EP, along with the 2013 single "Bagboy", is the first new material from the band in more than 20 years. This is the first album they have released without founding member Kim Deal, who quit earlier in the year. It is the first in a series of releases planned through the band's web site and designed by Vaughan Oliver.

The discography of Pixies, an American alternative rock band, includes six studio albums, 12 singles, five compilations, one mini-LP, and three EPs as of September 2016. Pixies formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. Following their 1987 demo tape, the band signed to the English independent record label 4AD. They released Come On Pilgrim, comprising eight songs from their demo tape, in October 1987.

Another Toe in the Ocean. Albums: Surfer Rosa (1988), Doolittle (1989), Bossanova (1990), Trompe le Monde (1991), Indie Cindy (2014), Head Carrier (2016). Singles: Here Comes Your Man (1989), Monkey Gone to Heaven (1989). EPs: Come On Pilgrim (1987).

Before Pixies were dead and in the ground they were an influential alternative rock band that abruptly broke up after releases four albums and one EP in a five year span. When a band dissolves after a short amount of time chock full of great material, the question "What could have been"" always arrises, but honestly, Pixies breaking up in 1993 was probably for the better.

Words: Justin McDaid. Article Published: September 10, 2013. A distinctly un-Pixies sounding Andro Queen thumps to life with a booming, Eighties pop production sound. It seems as if a new direction is in the offing, until some of those telling signifiers start to make themselves known – Black Francis intoning in Spanish; abstract imagery delivered in a scat growl; glimpses of ‘Trompe Le Monde’s outer space fixations; Joey Santiago’s Jekyll & Hyde guitar transformations. It’s these very sonic trademarks that mask the fact, initially, that ‘EP-1’ is the sound of a band with little new to offer.

Pixies is a 2002 EP release of the (mostly) previously unissued material from Pixies' original 17-track demo tape (known to Pixies aficionados as "The Purple Tape"), recorded at Fort Apache Studios in March 1987 by Gary Smith. Eight of the tracks from the session were released in 1987 as the band's debut, Come On Pilgrim and the remaining nine were sourced for this release by SpinART Records in the . and Sonic Unyon Records in Canada.

Tracklist

A1 Andro Queen
A2 Another Toe In The Ocean
B1 Indie Cindy
B2 What Goes Boom

Companies, etc.

  • Copyright (c) – Pixies Music
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Pixies Music
  • Recorded At – Rockfield Studios
  • Recorded At – Sonelab
  • Recorded At – The Autumn Den
  • Pressed By – GZ Digital Media – 110148N

Credits

  • Art Direction, Design – Vaughan Oliver
  • Artwork [Back Sleeve Illustration] – Michael Speed
  • Artwork [Front And Inner Sleeve Illustration] – Ian Pollock
  • Backing Vocals – Jeremy Dubs
  • Bass – Ding*
  • Design [Design Assistance] – Brian Whitehead, Michael Speed
  • Management – Richard Jones
  • Mixed By – Dan Austin, Gil Norton
  • Producer – Gil Norton
  • Recorded By [Additional Recording] – Justin Pizzoferrato, Mike Stitsinger

Notes

Limited to 5000 copies.

Vinyl jacket printed on heavy, textured card stock. Includes a fluorescent orange inner sleeve with gold foil emboss.

Mixed by Dan Austin and Gil Norton for 140dB.

Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Wales.

Additional recording:

Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton

Mike Stitsinger at The Autumn Den, Northampton

℗ & © Pixies Music 2013

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): 110148N1/A
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): 110148N2/A

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
none Pixies EP1 ‎(4xFile, MP3, EP, 320) Not On Label (Pixies Self-released) none US 2013
none Pixies EP-1 ‎(4xFile, FLAC, EP) Not On Label (Pixies Self-released) none US 2013

Comments

great ant great ant
Still available, at Pixies new store https://kontrabandstor.es/pixies/music/ep1, 16.16 euros plus shipping.
bass bass
It was 13 euros plus shipping couple of days ago
Diredefender Diredefender
Attention buyers! The sellers payed no attention to me :-). Hence I recommend you buy it from Pixies for only 20 euros — still available new here: http://pixies.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=27132
Querlaca Querlaca
Attention sellers! This still for sale new from Pixies (http://pixies.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=27132) at 20 euros, not the 40 to 80 euros that you are asking.
Kulalas Kulalas
This shouldn't be so expensive, EP2 is rarer and almost a fourth of the price for this
Alianyau Alianyau
P.S- Pixies are a completely different band now, and I commend them for taking a risk. Maybe on their new tour they may even play "Where is My Mind?" for all the "purists".
Eyalanev Eyalanev
There is no way that anything the Pixies do from here on in can live up to the hipsters' standards. I've been a fan for a long time, and I think the new stuff is good. We all love to re-write history with certain bands. Remember, this band had to go to Britian to become "famous". They couldn't give their albums away in the states, yet all the bandwagon jumpers cite "Doolittle" or the time they saw "Hey" at the reunion show as pivotal moments in their hipster lives. When Kurt Cobain admitted he ripped off Pixies music, all of a sudden they were everyone's favourite band. Pitchfork had to give it a 1/10 because they need to hold onto their holier than thou cred. Then all the sheep line up to quote the review. Kim Deal was not the Pixies. She hardly had any input at all... She didn't even fully write a complete song.... "Gigantic" was a co-write and so was "Silver", but you all skip that track anyway!! Does anyone even "listen" to music anymore?
Samulkree Samulkree
I'm a pretty easygoing Pixies fan who enjoyed their later stuff as much as what came before. I'm certainly no purist. That said, this attempt at a comeback is without a doubt the most disappointing and horrible collection of music that I have ever purchased. As someone who often acquires albums based on nothing more than cover art, music quality be damned, I can tell you quite honestly that my concept of "the worst music" is a very low bar indeed. The Pixies easily passed beneath this abysmally deep level of awful, getting extra marks for becoming the record I rid myself of soonest after purchase.Still not convinced? Imagine Peter Frampton with digital vocal effects one track away from some bland alternative group who borrowed from the worst aspects of Tool and Filter.... and then suddenly realize that this is supposed to be the Pixies. You try to wake up, but you can't! This is really happening!Stay far, far away.
Anayalore Anayalore
Are you high?!? Perhaps your eye for cover art is far better then your ear for music? Just saw the pixies play last night with a mix of songs off of Indie Cindy and everything before and can saw the new songs for perfect amongst their catalogue of music.. Don't listen to reviews like this.. It had been twenty plus years since they've released new music, I'd be worried if they or their sound didn't have a little change to it.. And please don't compare Peter Frampton's mastery of the talk box to the digital vocal effects of today..apples and oranges
Siratius Siratius
Pixies should have never reunited - at least not as "Pixies". Of course, this is one in a row of typically selfish personal opinions - but also one made out of respect for their past work, what it meant to a generation, a desperate cry for the time that cannot be b(r)ought back.There were many reasons why they did split up at the time and for long successfully resisted the evil that is reunion. Black Francis hanged on to his ego, while others started their own projects and proved Pixies were not the only fairy tale to wish for. For me personally, Pixies stopped there and then - after that very last studio album called "Trompe Le Monde", which is not as perfect as the first four records but still did breathe on its own and was a logical conclusion to the story of one of the truest alternative rock bands.That way their legacy would have remained intact. This way however, "Pixies of the 21st century" chose to become a watered down version of their former selves, a mediocre indie-thing, featuring four (actually three original) members that sadly refuse to evolve musically - which is audibly sad for a group that once led the way and gave us gems like "Is She Weird?", "Ana" or "Bone Machine", to name a few. There was definitely the youth factor of the time, discovering and growing up with Pixies and learning to love and handle their twisted knife set that was music and the lyrics - but there was artistic maturity that captured it all together to last to the present day (and beyond). What is left now in the flesh, is a very shallow attempt (if any) to recapture this - on one song it actually works; "What Goes Boom" is dangerously close to Pixies' glory days, deservedly so... although it obviously re-writes from what Pixies once truly meant, but sadly not any more. Considering from what their "come-back" has to offer - to put it simply, "EP-1" sounds as if Pixies are a completely different band now, either confused with or unaware (and utterly dismissive) of the legend. Starting with the very title of this release (song titles don't help either).The time gap is too big and so much has happened throughout the last twenty-or-so years in their as well as our lives, that the group's comeback doesn't really change, save nor does anything to improve the time that is now. Sadly the weirdness and bones are history (the best part). New stuff has a momentary second or two of appeal but in total it's just hurting mediocre. The only consolation might be the Vaughan Oliver presence in the sleeve designs - if only this was their first-ever recording, it might have fared slightly better, at least with crazed collectors.
Beazerdred Beazerdred
Not likely. I mean, there will probably be a full album released, but nothing can save this garbage. Whatever was good about the Pixies didn't make it out of the '90s.
Xig Xig
This EP is a message that the Pixies are moving forward. There will be more and they will be better and better. A proper album will surface and everyone will be re-editing their previous reviews.
Agrainel Agrainel
As a printing nerd, I love the detail / quality of the printing of the sleeve and jacket. Really really nice.