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Apr 29, 2014Arguably, it fares better as a decent Frank Black album than an anticlimactic Pixies album, and fans who can appreciate that these songs don't diminish the legacy of the band's previous music will probably enjoy it the most.
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Apr 21, 2014There’s something un-Pixielike about that tentativeness, yes, but surely this group, and these fine if uncharacteristic songs, should have the chance to re-enter pop life on their own older, wiser terms.
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May 5, 2014On Indie Cindy, there’s not a lot of danger, or passion--or excitement for that matter.
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Apr 29, 2014The Pixies sound like a band again on Indie Cindy. From time to time, they even sound like the Pixies.
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Apr 21, 2014There are Pixies fans that would have preferred another ‘Doolittle’ instead, but Indie Cindy isn’t bad, not bad at all.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014A worthy addition to one of alt.rock's greatest canons. [Jul 2014, p.92]
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Apr 30, 2014Indie Cindy delivers a relatively gratifying 12 track-journey that, at the least, yields some classic-sounding Pixies tunes.
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May 1, 2014Sure, you can wallow in disappointment that this record ranks a distant fifth alongside the band’s classic LPs, but don’t allow yourself in the process to miss out on a handful of worthwhile songs.
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Apr 28, 2014It doesn’t so much as show them in a new light, more picks up where ‘Trompe le Monde’ left off all those years ago. But, as the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don’t fix it.
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Apr 23, 2014When all's said and done, there are worse things in life than being the fifth-best Pixies album. So I guess we'll just leave it that and say no more.
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Entertainment WeeklyApr 25, 2014Simply in the mood for great rock music from a band that knows how to make it? Get this album. [2 May 2014, p.63]
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May 13, 2014Indie Cindy plays just like one of Black’s solo efforts, but with better session players: good, yes, but never great.
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Kerrang!May 12, 2014Like all comebacks worthy of the listener's time, Indie Cindy is more than a rehash of the group's earlier near-hits, and is instead an outing that manages to surprise and enthrall. [19 Apr 2014, p.53]
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MagnetJun 18, 2014Yes, some of these are very stupid songs.... And like Doolittle, there are great songs here. [No. 110, p.58]
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MojoApr 23, 2014What's lacking is the shock factor.... At its best, amid the oceanic dream-wave of melody and surreal verbiage that these reanimated Pixies still essay with style, Indie Cindy is worthy of full participation. [May 2014, p.90]
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Apr 22, 2014If you’re new to Pixies, try this one first, then let the magic of their previous records blow your mind. If you’re already in love with their best work, a dalliance with Indie Cindy can’t hurt.
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Apr 28, 2014The album had to happen, and for a band that are now ostensibly a touring entity, the measure of its songs is whether you’d want to hear them being played at, say, Field Day this summer. Slipped between their classics, they’ll do just fine.
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May 5, 2014It doesn’t leave much to the imagination; in fact, it states quite clear that there’s not much substance behind their muscular, other times grounded, modern rock template.
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Apr 29, 2014What makes Indie Cindy so egregious, so much worse than a simply bad album, is how much better it could have been.
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May 2, 2014So, while Indie Cindy is not an objectively bad album, it does fail to live up to the Pixies’ caliber, and a few noteworthy songs does not an exceptional record make.
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Apr 28, 2014Give Indie Cindy an honest listen. If you have to, just pretend it's the new project of Frank Black, Joey Santiago and David Loverling.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014Is Indie Cindy good enough for the Pixies to keep going? Pretty much. [Jun 2014, p.113]
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May 29, 2014The lack of personality is most strikingly felt in Kim Deal’s absence.
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Apr 29, 2014Indie Cindy has hit-or-miss songs already released via digital dribbles and drabs.
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Apr 30, 2014Whether or not you've made your peace with the datedness of Indie Cindy, as well as the sheer pile of things you did not want to see the band do, are you going to put it on repeat? More than you think, but less than they hope.
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Apr 28, 2014Even given the mixed results it's good to have them back. Listen without expecting the impossible and you'll find ample to enjoy.
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Apr 21, 2014If this had been released a year after their last album, Trompe Le Monde, it would have fit perfectly adequately into Pixies' discography.
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Apr 28, 2014The most surprising thing about Pixies’ first album in 23 years is that it holds so few surprises.
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Apr 21, 2014All the components are there, Joey Santiago’s guitar work is still impressive, Lovering’s drumming is still vigorous, but the problem is Black Francis himself. The compelling songwriting that completed Pixies is no longer there.
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Apr 28, 2014Perhaps the most salient fact of all about this Pixies album is that it combines their three recent EPs without any new, unreleased material. It's a craven cash-in.
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Apr 25, 2014Chances are that after the initial thrill has gone, you'll be reaching for Indie Cindy less frequently than Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, more than Trompe Le Monde and about the same as Bossanova and that's not a bad return to the fray by any measure.
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Apr 25, 2014The result is not bad: though you miss the unpredictable blasts of raw hellfire from the cult classic Surfer Rosa era, the band find some gritty, grindy melodies in the bigger, slicker vein of 1991’s patchy Trompe Le Monde.
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UncutApr 28, 2014It may seem churlish to identify one reunion as especially cynical, but recent Pixies activities have felt notably artless--a situation emphasised by Indie Cindy. [Jun 2014, p.82]
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Jul 23, 2014At least Pixies didn't try to fake their way into recreating every aspect of their former glory. But the music here is so unfortunately forgettable.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 60
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Mixed: 15 out of 60
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Negative: 7 out of 60
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