Review Summary: Got me a new album, I want you to know! Slicing up eyeballs, fucked up lyrics and more!
The bass is so groovy, the guitars are too! Don't know about you, but I'm addicted to the Pixie's masterpiece
The Pixies never made it big, it feel truly incredible in retrospect, but they never made it big.
They lurked across the landscape, creating some of the very best and most influential music ever, while staying out of the spotlight, away from the media and the fame
While the Alternative Nation was ascending to the music's Olympus, they were fading away, chances were that we'll never heard of them again
But chances were wrong, and Doolittle, along with Surfer Rosa, stands as one of the most revered and beloved albums in history at the present day
And with good reason...
Perfecting Surfer Rosa's unlikely combination of blazing punk and melodic pop, Doolittle finds the alternative heroes Pixies at the very height of their powers, and the cleaner, lusher production of Gil Norton further heightens the hooks and grooves of this album
Doolittle's is damn near perfect...
Classic song after classic song, Doolittle's restless assault never falls short, may it be the frenzied, compulsively listenable Debaser, of the dreamy, if unsettling Wave of Mutilation, the perfectly concise and lovable Here Comes Your Man, the monolithical, larger than life Monkey Gone to Heaven, or the restrained, yet tense and nervous I Bleed, Doolitte's delivers like few albums could at the time, and it does even more, it does it with perfect balance
Now listen up, boys, balance is quite hard to archieve, many have tried, and few have succeed, it dragged down a lot of cool albums and even killed off some careers, yet the Pixies walk in the rope filled with confidence and at full flight
Who else could deliver songs like Tame and Mr. Grieves in the same record? Who else could have worked through songs as Hey and Gouge Away?
Doolittle's walks in tension, yet never fails to the expectations, and we can thank the Pixies for that.
Highlights
- Debaser
- Tame
- Wave of Mutilation
- Here Comes Your Man
- Monkey Gone to Heaven
- Hey
- Gouge Away
