Pixies at Electric Picnic: Eardrum-shredding pop is just what a reborn festival needs

ExpandWhere have our minds been in the three years since the last Electric Picnic? This isn’t a question indie rock icons Pixies are in a position to answer. But their clattering, spill-your-pint pop delivers exactly the zing day one of the festival requires as, all together at once, we regain our Picnic legs.

There’s a new Pixies album on the way — their fourth since they reunited in 2004. And they belabour the point, slightly, with a few too many fresh cuts. Mostly, though, this is a knock-out greatest hits set that jabs you in the gut with a buzz-sawing Gouge Away and a caterwauling Nimrod’s Son, before sailing off into twanging perfection with Here Comes Your Man.

Those new tracks have the sort of autumnal sheen that you expect of middle-aged indie icons. But Black, guitarist Joey Santiago, drummer Dave Lovering and new-ish bassist Paz Lenchantin , haven’t lost that old protean rumble, as they prove on Where Is My Mind?, a chronicling of physiological collapse that has become the unlikeliest of anthems.

If only the kids understood it.

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