The Pixies' fifth and final studio album (to date) was Trompe Le Monde, released in September 1991.
Boasting a bigger, vaguely psychedelic sound - thanks in part to Captain Beefheart keyboardist Eric Drew Feldman - this underrated set was by turns anthemic (space/time travel saga ‘Planet Of Sound’), explosive (The Jesus & Mary Chain cover ‘Head On’), sardonic (‘U-Mass’, ‘Subbacultcha’) and oddly poignant (‘The Sad Punk’).
Trompe Le Monde crashed into the UK Top Ten, though curiously it stalled at 92 in the States.
Tracklisting
1. Trompe le Monde
2. Planet of Sound
3. Alec Eiffel
4. Sad Punk
5. Head On
6. U-Mass
7. Palace of the Brine
8. Letter to Memphis
9. Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
10. Space (I Believe In)
11. Subbacultcha
12. Distance Equals Rate Times Time
13. Lovely Day
14. Motorway to Roswell
15. The Navajo Know