The Pixies reveal details of new album

It appears that the Pixies will be debuting some new songs when they play Lansdowne Road on August 24.

Asked this week about the possibility of a new album, Frank Black said: “I predict we’ll make a record sometime in the next year.”
This is the first time that anyone in the band has mentioned a follow-up to 1991’s Trompe Le Monde.

Meanwhile, Black has not one but two solo albums in the can – Honeycomb which is due on July 19 and co-stars such seasoned musos as Spooner Oldham, Steve Cropper and Billy Block, and an as-yet-untitled Nashville set that he’s looking to release in early 2006.

“I wasn’t really thinking in terms of, ‘This is the follow-up to Honeycomb’”, he tells US trade bible Billboard. It was sort of, ‘Let’s do another session and see what happens.’ Most of it was recorded in one night, like a midnight to 6pm the next-day all-nighter kind of thing.”

Session guests include The Band’s Levon Helm, Free/Bad Company’s Simon Kirke, Ian McLagan of The Small Faces and Rolling Stones tour band fame and hotshot singer-songwriter Reid Paley who co-authored five of the tunes.

“I hadn’t really done a lot of collaborating in my life,” Black reflects. “Reid showed up on the Pixies tour and we just holed up in the hotel room when I wasn’t gigging, and we worked all day.”