“This was a wonderful luxury for us to have the time to be able to really work these new songs out.”

“By the time we started recording, we all knew the songs backwards and forwards, so it took half as long for us to make this album as it did to make Indie Cindy.”

This is their first post-reunion album not including their compilation, Indie Cindy.

Bassist Paz Lenchantin returns having toured with Pixies since 2014. She said in a statement:

“I spent three years learning to understand what being a Pixie meant, and now my heart, spirit and love for their music is embedded in me and I feel like I have become a Pixie.”

When Lenchantin took over from founding bassist Kim Deal (also of Breeders), Pixies commented on how irreplaceable Kim Deal was. Front man Black Francis said:

“Even with her leaving, which was sort of like the big no-no, you know, no one wants her to leave — ‘Oh God, not Kim Deal, anybody, but not Kim Deal’ — we still went: ‘No we’re going to finish the job’.”

Drummer Lovering said of Lenchantin’s presence:

“I think if we had a guy up there, it wouldn’t be the same.”

Formed way back in 1986, Pixies hit the grunge scene and certainly influenced the Indie scene of the 90s. The disbanded in 1993 before reuniting again in 2004.

Watch the single ‘Um Chagga Lagga’, recorded at the Rolling Stone office: