Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago scores his first writing credit score within the group’s storied, 35-plus-year historical past on “Dregs of the Wine,” the most recent monitor to be unveiled from the upcoming album Doggerel.
“I assume I used to be in form of a zombie state, simply taking part in,” Santiago says of the preliminary instrumental thought. “After I ended taking part in, I put it down and went, ‘Effectively, that was a fucking waste of time. What a chunk of shit I’m.’ I beat myself up rather a lot, however my girlfriend, unbeknownst to me, was recording me. She performed it again to me, and I am going, ‘Fuck! Maintain on a second right here! These items is nice!’”
Pixies frontman Black Francis ultimately added lyrics about “residing in Los Angeles within the ‘90s with my then-wife, hanging out with Joey and his ex-wife, a lot of journeys to Las Vegas, a variety of ingesting, little bit drug taking, some real good instances.”
These adventures apparently included debating the deserves of Van Halen’s cowl of The Kinks’ “You Actually Obtained Me,” ingesting beneath the Hollywood signal and/or dropping acid. By no means shy about inserting surreal references into his lyrics, Francis mentions the late comic Redd Foxx, the “smiling queen of Thailand” and flying a aircraft with “lion tamers” to Brazil.
Doggerel is due Sept. 30 from BMG. Pixies will play a handful of October reveals in assist of it, starting Oct. 1 in Anaheim, Calif.
