{"product_id":"pixies-surfer-rosa","title":"Pixies - Surfer Rosa","description":"\u003cp\u003ePixies' Surfer Rosa still sounds like it was recorded in a concrete stairwell by people with something to prove, and that rawness is exactly the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 1988 as the Boston band's first full-length album, following the Come On Pilgrim mini-album, it was recorded with Steve Albini, whose bone-dry, room-heavy approach left Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering nowhere to hide. Nobody wanted to. The record became a touchstone for the alternative explosion that followed, and Kurt Cobain was famously among its biggest admirers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBone Machine opens with Lovering's drums cracking like gunshots before the guitars lurch in sideways. Gigantic hands the spotlight to Kim Deal for a sweet, swaggering anthem she co-wrote, and Where Is My Mind? floats on a lonely, ghostly guitar figure that later found a second life closing Fight Club. Elsewhere Francis howls in Spanish, mutters in English and somehow makes both sound like hooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe loud-quiet-loud dynamic that shaped a decade of guitar music is all over these songs, along with a twisted sense of humour that most of the band's imitators forgot to copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirteen songs in a little over half an hour, and not a dull second among them. A cornerstone for any shelf that leans left of the dial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57165861191985,"sku":"652637080315","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Pixies-Surfer_Rosa_461190c7-3540-4ad2-b88e-680f95c8dd6d.jpg?v=1793188012","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/pixies-surfer-rosa","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}