Trompe le monde
by Pixies
- Type: Album
- Released: 23 September 1991
- Label: 4AD
- Country: United States
- Length: 39:03
- Community rating: 3.71/5 from 12 ratings
Artists on this release: William Reid, Jim Reid, Jef Feldman, Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, Dave Lovering, Eric Drew Feldman
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The final studio album from their original run, 'Trompe le monde' finds the Pixies returning to an abrasive, highly energetic alternative rock sound. Black Francis dominates the songwriting, delivering surreal, science-fiction-inspired narratives over noisy, manic, and deeply anxious punk-inflected guitar bursts.
Genres
Descriptors: science fiction, noisy, space, distorted, guitar-driven
Tracklist
- Trompe le Monde (1:47)
- Planet of Sound (2:06)
- Alec Eiffel (2:50)
- The Sad Punk (2:59)
- Head On (2:14)
- U-Mass (3:00)
- Palace of the Brine (1:34)
- Letter to Memphis (2:40)
- Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons (2:48)
- Space (I Believe In) (4:18)
- Subbacultcha (2:09)
- Distance Equals Rate Times Time (1:24)
- Lovely Day (2:05)
- Motorway to Roswell (4:43)
- The Navajo Know (2:19)
Credits
- Pixies - primary artist
- Vaughan Oliver - art direction, design
- Steven Appleby - artwork [rockets]
- Kim Deal - bass, vocals
- Chris Bigg - design [assistance]
- Paul McMenamin - design [assistance]
- Dave Lovering - drums
- Steven Haigler - engineer
- Andrew Ballard - engineer [assistant]
- John McDonnell - engineer [assistant]
- Ken Gardner - engineer [assistant]
- Philipe Tousche - engineer [assistant]
- Scott Blockland - engineer [assistant]
- Eric Drew Feldman - keyboards, synthesizer [synthetics]
- TTP Ltd. - layout [typesetting]
- Joey Santiago - lead guitar
- Simon Larbalestier - photography by
- Gil Norton - producer
- Black Francis - songwriter, vocals, guitar
- Jef Feldman - tabla, goblet drum [dumbek]
- Jim Reid - songwriter
- William Reid - songwriter
- Steve Haigler - engineer