Pixies - Bossanova (30th Anniversary Edition)2020 marks the 30th Anniversary of Bossanova, the third studio album by Pixies. The band continued to work with Gil Norton after collaborating to such success on their platinum selling second album Doolittle; this time choosing to record in Los Angeles over their native Boston (the track Blown Away, however, was recorded at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin during a European tour in 1989). Their third album in as many years, 1990 was a particularly

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chugging snare and ascending/descending snakes and ladders noise-rock guitar deliver something that is so distinctively Girl Band

Lee and their friends

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and hip-hop into a seemingly cute package

it bore lots of fruit

The fruits of their collaboration would not find an official release until 1979 by which time Elton‰۪s ever-restless muse had moved on but the sessions were not destined to languish in obscurity

The Chats aren't showing any signs of slowing down soon

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A succession of mini-albums and mixtapes surrounded all of this

But they always end up reconnecting with their own past

pulled together an all-star cast of musicians for her self-titled US debut album