Pixies: Trompe Le Monde
Mark Cooper, Q, October 1991
BOSTON'S PIXIES have already ascended close to stadium status judging from their recent triumph at Crystal Palace. Yet their mounting success betrays no loss of tension in their angular guitar rock and no desire to tame Black Francis's wilful muse.
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