Trompe Le Monde | Limited Edition : 30th Anniversary - Green Vinyl

For its 30th Anniversary, Pixies’ 1991 album ‘Trompe Le Monde’ is reissued on marbled green vinyl. Bookended a golden run of landmark records - a mini-album followed by four albums, released in quick succession - that cemented Pixies as one of the best for a generation. Translated from French to mean ‘fool the world’, ‘Trompe Le Monde’ showed the band still restless to push their sound forward. Recorded between Burbank, Paris and London, with producer Gil Norton again at the controls, their fourth album is arguably their most playful, with Black Francis’s lyrics on UFOs and conspiracy theories keeping things weird while power pop creeps in to amplify the space rock established on predecessor ‘Bossanova’. ‘Trompe Le Monde’ goes full throttle with 15 tracks coming in a quickfire 40-minute salvo. Receiving critical praise at the time and being supported by a huge tour that included playing stadiums with U2, it also proved to be the end of Act One for the band, with them taking over a decade before returning to the stage together.

Tracks

1~1~Trompe Le Monde
1~2~Planet Of Sound
1~3~Alec Eiffel
1~4~The Sad Punk
1~5~Head On
1~6~U-Mass
1~7~Palace Of The Brine
1~8~Letter To Memphis
1~9~Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons
1~10~Space (I Believe In)
1~11~Subbacultcha
1~12~Distance Equals Rate Times Time
1~13~Lovely Day
1~14~Motorway To Roswell
1~15~The Navajo Know

Details

Format: Vinyl
Artist: Pixies
Release Date: 24 September 2021
Genre: Alternative
Label: 4AD
Distributor: Inertia Music