Pixies At The BBC 3LP fg_Release Date_2016-09-06 On their new album History

On their new album History Books—their first new music in over nine years—the New Jersey-bred four-piece bring their soulful breed of punk to ten thrilling songs exploring everything from mortality to mental illness to the more precarious dimensions of human connection

including “Jersey Girl” which was famously a hit for Bruce Springsteen

After a year of extensive touring in support of 2015’s The Agent Intellect

enveloping

Like an icepick to the face

Pixies At The BBC 3LP fg_Release Date_2016-09-06 On their new album HistoryPixies at the BBC is to be released for the first time on triple black vinyl. Between 1988 and 1991 during the band's 4AD years Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for John Peel and one for Mark Goodier. Catching the raw energy of the band's live performances, these sessions felt immediately noteworthy, timestamping a moment when Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering were motoring out front. Among the twenty four tracks