Pixies Announce New Album, Share Single ‘Chicken’

This is the band’s 10th album and first with new bassist Emma Richardson.

Image by Travis Shinn

Pixies are putting the finishing touches on their 10th album, The Night the Zombies Came, the band’s follow-up to 2022s Doggerel.

Set for release on October 25, the album is being released via BMG and will include the previously released single ‘You’re So Impatient’ and brooding new song ‘Chicken’.

The album is produced by Tom Dalgety, who was also behind the boards for Pixies’ previous albums Head Carrier, Beneath the Eyrie and Doggerel.

The Night the Zombies Came also marks the recording debut of the band’s new bassist Emma Richardson (Band of Skulls), who joined Pixies earlier this year after Paz Lenchantin’s departure.

You can listen to ‘Chicken’ below.

In a statement about the album, Pixies frontman Black Francis said: “Fragments that are related and juxtaposed with other fragments in other songs. And in a collection of songs in a so-called LP, you end up making a kind of movie.”

The Night the Zombies Came is set for release October 25 via BMG. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here and check out the album artwork and tracklist below.

The Night the Zombies Came

1. Primrose

2. You’re So Impatient

3. Jane (The Night the Zombies Came)

4. Chicken

5. Hypnotised

6. Johnny Good Man

7. Motoroller

8. I Hear You Mary

9. Oyster Beds

10. Mercy Me

11. Ernest Evans

12. Kings of the Prairie

13. The Vegas Suite

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