Album Review: Doggerel by Pixies

Pixies were great, huh? With a knack for making music simultaneously disposable, frivolous, and eternally memorable, they were, perhaps, the most influential and important act of their era. Their many imitators missed big by borrowing their angst and musical blueprint but failing to recognize that it was the intellect, the arch wit, the craft hidden amid the noise that often mattered most. It was the imagination with which they expressed that aforementioned angst that made their songs really stick.

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Madcap, unrestrained dynamism was PIXIES' whole deal in their late-80s-early-90s heyday. Their avant-garde singularity and biblical vagary solidified 'Surfer Rosa', 'Doolittle', and 'Bossanova' – their first three original-era records – firmly within alt-rock's hallowed canon. But the PIXIES are older now, and the band admits, in flowery, slightly hesitant language , that they're moving on from their cataclysmic, grungy roots.

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