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The Pixies: Road To Gnomewhere

Bruce Dessau, Vox, July 1991

The Pixies are in L.A. Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV is driving his dirty yellow caddy fast. With the stereo playing loud. Bruce Dessau thumbed a lift to Topanga Beach and sampled the band's new album, some hairpin bends at 65mph and the philosophy of the man they call Black Francis.

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