Pixies
Trompe Le Monde LP vinyl

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 arguably their most playful with Black Francis’s lyrics on UFOs and conspiracy theories keeping things weird while power pop creeps in to amplify the space rock established on predecessor Bossanova.

Featuring singles ‘Planet of Sound’, ‘Alec Eiffel’, ‘Letter to Memphis’ and a flawless cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Head On’, Trompe Le Monde goes full throttle with 15 tracks coming in a quickfire 40-minute salvo. Receiving critical praise at the time and being supported by a huge tour that included playing stadiums with U2, it also proved to be the end of act one for the band with them taking over a decade before returning to stage together.

NEW / Released in 1991 / Reissue 2008

Tracklist:

A1 Trompe Le Monde

A2 Planet Of Sound

A3 Alec Eiffel

A4 The Sad Punk

A5 Head On

A6 U-Mass

A7 Palace Of The Brine

A8 Letter To Memphis

B1 Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons

B2 Space (I Believe In)

B3 Subbacultcha

B4 Distance Equals Rate Times Time

B5 Lovely Day

B6 Motorway To Roswell

B7 The Navajo Know