Beneath the Eyrie

"The Pixies recorded Beneath the Eyrie at a creepy old church, which must have helped juice the gothic sound that they're going for. Of course, in their prime this band could make even the most sterile studio sound haunted, but after two records grasping for ambience, it's nice to hear a Pixies album with a moody sense of place again. It's weird that "better than nothing" became the bar for what was once one of the most celebrated bands of their era, but if it's a choice between more records as solid, if unspectacular, as Beneath the Eyrie or nothing, the Pixies might as well keep them coming. It's been a long time since this band had anything left to lose".

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"De alternative rocklegender føjer et solidt kapitel til deres fortælling. Selv om der er klædelige antræk til nye tiltag, er det hovedsagligt business as usual for Black Francis og co. med masser af melodisk bas, flænsende guitarer og surrealistisk billedsprog ... Frontmanden har altid haft blik for et surrealistisk billedsprog, og han har udtalt, at teksterne på det nye album er influeret af både den gotiske kirke, som indspilningerne fandt sted i, samt Francis' (påståede) kontakt til åndeverdenen".

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"... Beneath the Eyrie is the Pixies' strongest release since the band's reemergence. The album lyrically augments the real and magical while reestablishing the Pixies' musical fortitude".

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