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Album: The Pixies - Indie Cindy

While the music industry dithers over how it can ever again make money from record sales, the Pixies have come up with their own solution. Over the past year, the band have released three four-track EPs as downloads from their website, and all 12 tracks have now been gathered on this, their fourth album, and their first in 23 years.

Those who bought the vinyl edition, released for World Record Store Day, even got a bonus track, ‘Women of War’. Pixies fans are such that they will already have paid for the downloads, bagged the vinyl edition and bought the CD. It’s the kind of ruse that might cause rancour were it not for the Pixies’ credibility: this is not just a band, but an indie institution, and buying their records is less a commercial exchange than a statement of belief in the redemptive power of rock’n’roll.