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"The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986. The band disbanded in 1993 in acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and Dave Lovering have been the band's continual members. The Pixies found only modest success in their home country, but were significantly more successful in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, although never achieving mainstream success with their studio albums.
Their music, heavily influenced by punk and surf rock, was, while highly melodic, capable of being tremendously abrasive at the same time. Francis was the band's primary songwriter and singer and had a distinctly desperate, yowling delivery. He typically wrote cryptic songs about offbeat subjects, such as unidentified flying objects and surrealism. References to mental instability, violent Biblical imagery, physical injury, and incest feature in many of the band's songs.
The group is frequently posited as the immediate forebearer of the alternative rock boom of the early 1990s, though they disbanded before reaping any of the benefits this might have brought them. Avowed fan Kurt Cobain's acknowledgment of the debt Nirvana owed to the Pixies, along with similar tributes by other alternative bands, ensured that the Pixies' legacy and influence grew substantially in the years following their demise.
In July 2005, Black said that the band hopes to record a new album, their first since 1991. 'We really want to make a record for the right reasons, whether it is successful commercially or not,' Black said. Black reportedly presented a batch of songs to the group for consideration sometime in 2006, but later described them as 'too fakey'. Though it was widely reported that any new album efforts had been abandoned, Black revealed at a Spanish press conference in July 2006 that the band tentatively planned to continue working on new material, with the caveat that 'if it doesn't sound good, we don't put the machine into record'."
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