Summary from 47 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Pixies's catalog across 25 albums from 47 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Pixies album is Doolittle (1989) with a 8.8/10 average from 6 ratings, followed by Bossanova and Come On Pilgrim. The discography on Wavelength spans 1987 to 2024. Where Is My Mind? (Live from Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Denver, CO. June 5th, 2005) ranks as the highest-rated Pixies song on Wavelength with a 10.0/10 average.
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“This review was as good as written ten years ago, since by then, all of these songs had already entered the short canon of music memorized by my adolescent mind. As I acquired every new piece of Pixies material, I saw songs by other bands expunged from my cramped brain. As I absorbed "In Heaven", Big Black's "The Model" all but disappeared; "Into the White" burst in, Dinosaur Jr's "Freak Scene" ra”
Doolittle
“Being picked up by a major la-bel apparently hasn't brought any peace to Pixies singer-songwriter Black Francis. The same nightmares that inhabited the band's two brilliant independent LPs, Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa, are in evidence again on Doolittle. That's disturbing for Black Francis but great for the rest of us. A quick look at the song titles — "Debaser," "Gouge Away," "Wave of Mutilat”
Come On Pilgrim
“**Ed. note**: This week, the reunited Pixies released their first new album in 23 years. Titled *Indie Cindy*, the record collects material from three EPs released over the past few months. Two of these EPs have been reviewed by Pitchfork, and both received exceptionally [low](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18560-pixies-ep-1/) [marks](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18875-pixies-ep-2/).”
Doggerel
“Menace, too, matures like fine wine. Pixies’ seminal early albums – the very bedrock of modern alternative rock – were sharp and biting vintages: young and stinging, unrefined, spiced with Latino lust and melodic fury and prone to induce intoxicating visions both sci-fi and Biblical. Their first few comeback records (2014’s ‘Indie Cindy’ and 2016’s ‘Head Carrier’) found fresh harvests from the sa”
Doggerel
“Doggerel finds Pixies with an abundance of riffs and rockabilly nods”
Beneath the Eyrie (Deluxe)
“It’s Pixies’ otherworldly gaze that has always made them so appealing. While their blue-collar attitude, punk approach and quiet-LOUD simplicity would inspire the grunge movement that brought alternative music crashing back down to Earth, the realm of Black Francis and co has always been more of a psychedelic fever dream of myth, legend, bible scriptures and the fantastic. With seventh album ‘Bene”
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