“Classic Masher” by The Pixies

"Classic Masher" comes off Head Carrier, the sixth Pixies album, released in September 2016 on Pixiesmusic and PIAS and named, fittingly for this band, after a cephalophore, a saint who carries his own head. Black Francis wrote the words and sings them, the band shares the music credit, and Tom Dalgety produced, recorded and mixed it, taking over from Gil Norton, who had handled their previous four albums. The record was cut at RAK Studios in London.

The bigger change was on bass. Paz Lenchantin, who'd played in A Perfect Circle and Zwan, joined in 2014 to tour Indie Cindy after Kim Deal's exit the year before, and Head Carrier is her first full outing on a Pixies album, locking in under Joey Santiago's guitar and Dave Lovering's drums.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.