Album Review: Pixies ‘Beneath the Eyrie”

By Lloyd Wakeling, Rock At Night Manchester

Album Review: PIXIES-Beneath the Eyrie-Release date September 13, 2019

Pure Pixies!!!!!

It is always nice in life when certain things remain unchanged, so that you can organise your life accordingly. Like for example, British weather in December is rubbish, time for a coat. The train is always late, time for another tea or even my keys and me will be temporarily separated from each other some time this week without a doubt. So it is with much glee and a skip or two that I can add another thing to this list, the fact that The Pixies new album Beneath the Eyrie is pure Pixies and delivers a perfect accompaniment to what has gone before. Buoyed by a sublime rhythm section that melts in the ear, the album strides along with an identity all of its own, yet quite definitely it wears the clothes handed down from its siblings. Vocals that bite and leave a mark are given to us without fluff and it is a joy to be entwined in the whole lovely experience. The history of The Pixies is well known and this album enhances that history with a set of tracks built from its legacy. Now where are those bloody keys!

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Lloyd Wakeling

The product of a there, where, everywhere lifestyle that all service families live through combined with being born into the 60's mishmash of politics, love and an anything goes era, is it any wonder I have an eclectic and varied love of all things music. Discovering the Beatles in Malaysia, Elvis and Fred Astaire in Torquay, Pink Floyd and Zeppelin at boarding school in Cornwall, Creedance in Saudi, taught me many things, but mainly the importance of the saying, 'each to their own'; nothing artistic can be crap...it is just different and after being diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome at 38 a lot about my life and outlook became much clearer to me, being a chef is what I do to earn money, being a much sold, self-obsessed artist tortures my dreams, but in all of it, music has remained my companion and as a friendly, happy companion with all of life’s memories entwined within their lyrics and melodies, things could definitely be worse…

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