Artist: Pixies
Album: EP 2
Source: Spotify
Pre-listening Notes: Somehow I missed this one. I thought it came out in December, but apparently the official release date was January 3. So, the Pixies are one of the most recognizable alternative rock/indie rock/college rock, whatever kind of rock we are calling non mainstream rock these days. Punks love them, hipsters love them, normal folk love them, every type does. And every type also hates them for various reasons too. Either way, they arguably put out some of the better records that weren't huge radio success stories of the late 80's, early 90's. I've heard mostly negative things about the stuff they've been doing since this wave of more recent activity. I never bothered listening to EP 1, but since I'm doing this I'll give this one a whirl as the end of January, early February has me in a little bit of a rut of things I was really looking to listen to. So, here we go on a very, very low expectation listen to this EP.
Initial Reaction: First song opens up with some fuzzy guitars, then some late 70's radio rock drums kick in. The vocals creep in and I immediately regret deciding to listen to this. I've never had any beef with Black Francis's vocals, but this just sounds like 80's era AC/DC.
Random Thoughts: Magdalena sounds like it could have been written in the early 90's, but was a throwaway song that didn't make the cut for an album. Greens and Blues is super poppy and probably the only one of the three I could ever see myself listening to again. Not to say that I will, but if it came on somewhere where someone accidentally added it to a mix, I wouldn't make fun of it. I forgot at first that this was a four song EP, and Snakes doesn't do much more to move this out of the bad category for me, although it doesn't necessarily sink it even further into the horrible one.
Final Reaction: I'm not one of those people who refuse to give new albums a listen by well established bands. Even ones that don't put out new music for decades. Hell, Carcass put out an incredible record after a 17 year gap in releases. But, this just wasn't really any good.
Final Grade: 3.0/10
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