Just days before alterna-demigods the Pixies began their reunion tour last year, the group’s frontman/guitarist Frank Black recorded an Americana/Southern soul-flavored solo record in Nashville. Calling on session legends like Muscle Shoals’ David Hood, former Stax guitarist Steve Cropper, and drummers Chester Thompson and Anton Fig, Black’s catchy, off-kilter songs are raised to new levels of somber beauty by the group’s soulful accompaniment and counterbalanced by Hood’s buoyant bass lines. (GO)
"Fried food, cigarettes, no exercise, chest pain..." (Excerpt from the Angina Monologues)
