Pixies Announce New LP 'Doggerel', Stream "There's A Moon On"

Boston alt rockers Pixies have announced the release of their eighth studio album 'Doggerel'.

The band' seventh full-length and follow-up to 2019's Beneath the Eyrie,  will be out on September 30 via BMG. Pre-order your copy here.

‘Doggerel’ is a mature yet visceral record of gruesome folk, ballroom pop and brutal rock, haunted by the ghosts of affairs and indulgences, driven wild by cosmic forces and envisioning digital afterlives where no God has provided one. And all the while, right there on the news, another distant storm approaches.  

Guitarist Joey Santiago says, “This time around we have grown. We no longer have under two-minute songs. We have little breaks, more conventional arrangements but still our twists in there.”  

Vocalist/guitarist Black Francis adds,  “We're trying to do things that are very big and bold and orchestrated. The punky stuff, I really like playing it but you just cannot artificially create that shit. There's another way to do this, there's other things we can do with this extra special energy that we're encountering.”  

That energy shimmers in the album’s new single ‘There’s A Moon On’, which fits into the space between prototype squalling Pixies guitars and heartland rock classicism. Thematically it plays somewhere between fact and legend, playing upon the adrenalizing effect of the lunar cycle on the human psyche, a phase during which the drunks in Francis’s brother’s bar become more aggressive.  

Check out the album's tracklist, watch a lyric video for lead single "There's A Moon On" and a trailer, below.

Doggerel tracklist: 

1. Nomatterday 
2. Vault of Heaven 
3. Dregs of the Wine 
4. Haunted House
5. Get Simulated 
6. The Lord Has Come Back Today 
7. Thunder & Lightning
8. There’s A Moon On 
9. Pagan Man 
10. Who’s More Sorry Now? 

11. You’re Such A Sadducee 
12. Doggerel

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