22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
The Pixies aren't taking any of this for granted
Even after all these years, a Pixies song sounds like a Pixies song. That's the case with 'I Hear You Mary,' a haunting ballad on last year's 'The Night the Zombies Came,' which has loud-quiet-loud dynamics, a surf rock riff and left-field lyrics both corporeal and violent.
'Forevermore here among the broken tombs,' bandleader Black Francis sings on the song, which was co-written by guitarist Joey Santiago. 'How long has it been since I trod this ruddy soil?'
