“Caribou” by The Pixies

"Caribou" comes from Come On Pilgrim, the 1987 mini-album on 4AD that put the Pixies on record for the first time. It's a Black Francis song, words and music, and he sings it with Kim Deal, playing electric guitar alongside Joey Santiago while Deal plays bass and Dave Lovering drums.

It was cut in March 1987 at Fort Apache Studios in Boston, where studio owner Gary Smith produced a 17-song demo, the one later nicknamed the Purple Tape, with Paul Q. Kolderie engineering. The cassette reached 4AD boss Ivo Watts-Russell through the band's manager, Ken Goes, and he fell for it hard enough to sign them, pick out eight songs and remix them into Come On Pilgrim. The other nine had to wait until 2002, when they finally came out as Pixies.

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