Bleep

What’s the best Pixies album? Out of their original run of four stellar albums, there’s a case to be made for each — but it’s agreed that 1991’s Trompe Le Monde is their most aggressively confident and adventurous. Black Francis’ UFO obsession fully creeps into the likes of ‘Planet of Sound’, and the group’s surreal lyricism reaches a kind of space rock opera-meets-power pop coda with the likes of ‘Palace of the Brine’ and ‘Letter to Memphis’.