Pixies - Trompe Le Monde eccentric northern soul and the richly crafted worlds

and the richly crafted worlds of Feist

and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technologies

The Beths bring new energy to the genre

Part of the fabled Elephant 6 collective

the album that brought them to perform halfway around the world and made them known by a larger audience than the gem hunters who already loved them from their first album “Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi”

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde eccentric northern soul and the richly crafted worldsLP 4AD (2021) UK, US, EU Trompe Le Monde bookended a golden run of landmark records a mini album followed by four albums, released in quick succession that cemented Pixies as one of the best for a generation. Translated from French to mean "fool the world," Trompe Le Monde showed the band still restless to push their sound forward. Recorded between Burbank, Paris, and London, with producer Gil Norton again at the controls, their fourth album is