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30 - Wednesday, October 25, 1989 ~- North Shore News

music Bang

Songs from the dark side

URLING DISTURB-

ING, discomforting

messages from
effland, this obstreperous
breed of pixie chooses to
indulge in the misanthropic
rather than the mischievous.

There’s a rewarding doctoral

thesis to be drawn irom « close
analysis of the obsessive lyrical
concerns of Black Francis (aka
Charles Micahel Kitridge). Pixie
probing aside, Black and the Pixies
posse are due for their first Van-
couver show Nov. 4 at the Com-
modore, with guest Bob (ex-
Hukser Du) Mould. Music Now
recentiy spoke with Pixies bassist
Kim Deal.

MICHAEL *
BECKER

record review

A collision of style and content
ultimately makes this band’s
special subversion seductive. Ac-
cording to Deal, the Pixies song-
crafting process begins with
Kitridge tossing out chord pro-
gressions. The group collectively
refines an arrangement and then
Kitridge, gifted with a singularly
oblique perspective derived from a
“Jow-level constant nervous
breakdown,” layers on the words.

And so, the listener is presented
with the resoundingly horrific, as
in the Doolittle album’s Gouge
Away — “... sleeping on your
belly; you break my arms; you
spoon my eyes; been rubbing a
bad charm; with holy fingers...’
But the creative crunch is found
beyond the ghoulish, an attitude
which Kitridge happens to wear
well. It comes when the band
spins out songs that with a cursory
listening sound like facile surfer-
pop lightweights. Set against 2 lur-
ching, wheediing guitar presence
and Kitridge’s primal screams from
the monkey cage, even the most
mundane of lyrics, like La La Love
You's mantra “’... all I’m saying
pretty baby; la la love you, don‘t
mean maybe...”” turn remarkably
threatening.

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modore Saturday, Nov. 4 with guest artist Bob Mould.

Just how did a young woman
like Deal hapren upon this
madness? Said Deal, ‘‘We're
from different places. Joe (lead
guitarist Joey Santiago) and
Charles (Black Francis) went to
university in Amherst. They met as
college room-mates and they
dropped out of school ancl moved
to Boston. They knew they wanted
to start a band. | was there. | had
just moved there from Ohio in
1986. ! was in Boston for about a
week when | saw an ad that said
they were looking fer a female
bass player for music somewhere
along the lines of Husker Du and
Peter, Paul and Mary. it was the
only ad | answered and | was the
only one who answered the ad.”

She traded in her guitar for a
bass and brought along a friend
(Pixies drummer David Lovering)
for the ride.

The path first led to England.
where the band inked a deal with
the progressive 4AD label.

“We nad opened up for the
Throwing Muses at a club called

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the Ratskeller in Boston. Their
producer was in the audience that
night ard said, ‘Come to us, I'll
give you 2 gocd rate on the stu-
dio.’ And we did. And we re-
corded about !6 different songs in
three days. And we drank a lot of
cola and ate a Jot of chocolate.
We just gave the tape to their
(Throwing Muses) manager and
said, ‘Ah, this is goad, isn’t it?’
The manager liked it, and he did
what is easiest. He just sent it to
the record company he had al-
ready been working with and 4AD
became our record company,”

See Pixies 2
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