Pixies Wave of Mutilation: The Best of Pixies (2 Lp's)Pixies: Black Francis (vocals, guitar); Kim Deal (vocals, bass); Joey Santiago (guitar); David Lovering (drums). Additional personnel includes: Eric Drew Feldman (keyboards, synthesizer). Producers: Gary Smith, Steve Albini, Gil Norton, Pixies. Recorded between 1987 & 1991. One of the most revered college radio bands of the late 1980s and early '90s, Pixies combined smart yet surreal pop with jagged, punk influenced rock and, oddly enough, broke up

These aren't bad things when done right

We'll Be Fine" (expressed in the song's repeated refrain) is also representative of Berninger's craft

Billy Currie (violin)

This 23-track collection

" These ten songs sound almost designed to be played on repeat

Announced without warning and available as a paid "bundle" via BitTorrent -- it was not the first record distributed that way but it certainly was the most prominent -- Tomorrow's Modern Boxes shared the same shock of the new as In Rainbows

and peers who are just as lost

All Night Format: Vinyl

and horror movie strings channel panic

sometimes getting songs that maybe should have been on the U

” Will says

The upbeat "Talking Backwards" folds some of the nostalgic melancholia into a gorgeously produced pop song about long-distance communication breakdowns as bright and straightforward as Luna in their prime