Black Francis NonStopErotik (Cooking Vinyl)
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By: Matt Tomiak
Once more utilizing his Pixies moniker instead of the Frank Black guise under which umpteen albums were released during the nineties, NonStopErotik alludes to Soft Cell's 1983 album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. But the man born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV isn't concerning himself with uninhibited synth-pop these days anymore than the riotous, sex, death and destruction-fixated surf-punk for which his former charges became known and loved.
Meaty garage rock is the default setting of NonStopErotik, with detours via gentle pastoral psychedelia ('Rabbits') and Gram Parsons covers ('Weeks'). The big fella isn't screeching his belligerent jabberwocky in quite as gleefully unhinged manner as his old band's heyday, although the Wilco-esque alt-country on one track is leant a wry subversion thanks to its title: 'When I Go Down On You.'
True, pretty vanilla by Pixies' old standards, but there's still sufficient glimmers here of the mad genius of yore.
Artists in this article: Frank Black Francis
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