Review:
9 out of 10
Trompe
le Monde would be the Pixies final album together. Released in
September 1992 right at the start of Nirvanamania (on a song, "Smells Like
Teen Spirit", that Kurt Cobain admitted was a ripoff of the Pixies), the
band would break up within months amid feuding between Kim Deal and Black
Francis. Trompe le Monde is often scoffed at by Pixies fans,
but I like it a lot. There are several songs "Alec Eiffel", "Planet
of Sound", "U-Mass", "Subbacultcha", and "D=rate x time" that show that
the Pixies could still rock with the best of them. Lyrically, it
is perhaps my favorite album. "Subbacultcha" and "Motorway to Roswell"
are two of my favorite Pixies songs on any album. The latter concerns
space and aliens, a theme that dominates the record, as it increasingly
obsessed Black Francis at the time. Forget what you've heard and
listen to this album with an open mind!
Planet
of Sound
1. Planet
of Sound
2. Theme from
Narc
3. Build High
4. Evil Hearted
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