Black Francis

“Some people die, then they start to get old,” Black Francis yowls on Bluefinger,
summing up the perversity of his youngest-sounding and most Pixies-ish solo album. For the
first time since the Pixies, he's recording as Black Francis instead of Frank Black, writing
songs in the choppy style of Trompe Le Monde. “Threshold Apprehension” is the best
rock blowout he's come up with since “U-Mass,” yelping debased poetry (“I l... More >