Album Review: Pixies - "Doggerel"
It appears that evidently I've lost track of the Pixies a bit in recent years. Upon receiving this album to review, I was convinced that it was their first since their unexpected triumph of a comeback Indie Cindy (if ever there was an award for "terrible album name, great album" then that one would be up there) way back in 2014 but apparently Frank Black and co have put out not one but two albums since then. Oops. Oh well, better late than never. At least from listening to the opening track here, the discordant angst of Nomatterday , it initially feels like the Pixies haven't missed a step despite the departure of Kim Deal in the interim with Joey Santiago's razorwire guitar and Frank Black's stark vocals mixing well before an unexpected change of pace in the middle sees it suddenly go into tuneful new wave territory (well, as tuneful as the Pixies ever get anyway and they casually chuck in a refrain of "don't piss in the fountain" just to ma...