Gerrard's album is a bewitching collaboration with the award-winning composer Patrick Cassidy and is a transcendent, hymnal collection of music which draws on a global variety of musical influences, literary inspirations and mythical traditions.
Thirteen songs celebrating such small victories as real squalor has to afford, and championing either the merits of true friendship or of parasitism, depending on who you talk to about it. Anger, meet regret! It's nice to know you. There are no love songs.
McCombs blends mordant humour, dazed lyricism, deadpan surrealism and real tenderness into songs full of surreptitious confidence. All told, it's something special - offbeat, intriguing, and rewarding in the extreme.
This is a creative leap forward for one of the most interesting band to emerge from the USA underground in the 1990s. Throughout, keyboards, violins and cellos swirl through the mix, conjuring plangent atmospheres, and making the album an overwhelmingly fluid and rich experience.
On The Block defies comparison. Miller's extraordinary voice ranges from a feral growl to a fractured falsetto, through fragile ballads and dense, rhythmic explosions, sending tantalising postcards from unmapped territory.
Over 2 hours of Pixies action,featuring a live show from 1988, all eight promo videos, intimate behind-the-scenes footage filmed on tour and a documentary on the band with star endorsements.
