“Subbacultcha” by The Pixies

"Subbacultcha" comes off Trompe le Monde, the Pixies' fourth album, which 4AD released in Britain in September 1991 with Elektra handling America a day later. Black Francis wrote it and sings it with Kim Deal, and the band are all present and correct: Black Francis and Joey Santiago on electric guitars, Deal on bass, Dave Lovering on drums. Gil Norton produced, Steve Haigler engineered, and the album was pieced together in Burbank, Paris and London.

The title is French for "Fool the World", and in hindsight the record reads like a parting shot: it was their last studio album before the split two years later, and the last with founding bassist Kim Deal, which makes this one of the final studio snapshots of that lineup.

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