Pixies Share Single ‘Oyster Beds’ From New Album ‘The Night the Zombies Came’

This will be the band’s first album since 2022’s Doggerel.

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The rollout for Pixies’ new album continues, with the quartet sharing another new track, ‘Oyster Beds’, from their hotly anticipated 10th album, The Night the Zombies Came.

‘Oyster Beds’ is two minutes of punchy punk rock that follows the previously released singles ‘You’re So Impatient’ and ‘Chicken’. Pixies frontman Black Francis was inspired to write the song while painting during breaks in the recording of The Night the Zombies Came in Rockfield Studios, Wales.

“[‘Oyster Beds’ is] a laundry list of things I was painting over the last couple years,” Francis revealed in a statement about the track. “I took up painting again when we were recording at Rockfield, and I didn’t stop.”

You can watch the official lyric video for ‘Oyster Beds’ below.

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The Night the Zombies Came is a follow-up to 2022’s Doggerel and features production by Tom Dalgety (Royal Blood, Ghost, Band of Skulls), who was also responsible for Pixies’ previous albums Head Carrier, Beneath the Eyrie and the aforementioned Doggerel.

The 13-track album is inspired by a wide range of subjects including apocalyptic shopping malls, surf rock, medieval themed restaurants and the “distinctive dry drum sound of 1970s era Fleetwood Mac.”

It’s also the first Pixies album to feature new bassist Emma Richardson, who was drafted in as a replacement for Paz Lenchantin. Before joining Richardson had been a member of Band of Skulls for the past decade. She began touring with the Pixies after Lenchantin departed earlier this year and was soon appointed as the band’s full-time bassist.

Pixies are currently touring Europe before heading to Australia supporting Pearl Jam on their Dark Matter World Tour.

The Night the Zombies Came arrives on October 25 via BMG. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here. Check out the album artwork and tracklisting 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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