The yak is back... Frank Black is trading as Black Francis again, and his new album Bluefinger (not released until September but out there in leaky cyberspace) has to be his best at least since 1994's Teenager of the Year, if not the Pixies themselves. He seems to have got that self-defeating live to two track out of his system and there's none of that rambling country rock either. It rocks.
Yes, he's weird again and all the better for it - it's a concept album about Dutch junkie rocker/artist Herman Brood (no, me neither). Wikipedia claims he's the Dutch personification of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Haven't yet worked out how to post mp3s but some guys have done youtube videos, which I've lifted and stuck here. Pick of the bunch is the outstanding Threshold Apprehension.
Your Mouth into Mine
Captain Pasty (as in pasty-faced)
Tight Black Rubber
Test Pilot Blues (btw, I like what the youtube guy TheophillusX has done here - it's like what they used to do on Top of the Pops when they didn't have a video so they ran the song over old silent movie footage - for example, you still see Queen's video for Under Pressure on VH1 but I reckon it must have originated like this).
From the last Frank Black album Christmass, this tune (Do What You Want) Gyaneshwar apparently dates from Pixies days
From the same album is Don't Get Me Wrong, a nice song and so much better than most of the dull and long-winded Fast Man/Raiderman.
OK, here's the Under Pressure video, just so you know what the hell I was talking about up above.
And finally, here's Frank Black and David Bowie duetting on Fashion at Bowie's 50th birthday concert.
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