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Jan 16, 2014Recorded last October, and with producer Gil Norton (who produced the band's final three albums) back at the helm, EP2 immediately delivers.
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Jan 16, 2014Only a smidgeon less euphoric than ‘EP-1’, EP-2 is another brief broadside that further justifies Pixies’ drip-drip release plan, keeping their ten-year-tour on the road and the intrigue of their new material relentlessly fresh.
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Jan 27, 2014With EP2 having a three-month buffer after the first, we've had time to get used to fact that the Pixies are back in full force. Plus, these four songs are stronger than the first four.
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Jan 16, 2014Following on from last year's EP1, this a tougher, leaner Pixies than that of their classic era, missing some of the ramshackle charm on which their most well known work floated.
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Jan 16, 2014With the good comes the average and with it the great.
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Jan 16, 2014Calling EP2 "serviceable" might be a little harsh; instead, its best moments suggest that the Pixies are settling into writing songs that sound comfortable next to the classics and don't try too hard to reclaim the magic of the band's early years.
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MojoFeb 11, 2014Blue Eyed Hexe makes occultish overtures; Magdalena is a great, aberrant love song. [Mar 2014, p.96]
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Jan 16, 2014It is the last two tracks of EP2 that bring a little disappointment.
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Jan 16, 2014As with EP 1, released last fall, this four-song set feels like a faint echo of the band's later albums, 1990's Bossanova and 1991's Trompe le Monde, lacking those records' frizzy menace, zany propulsion and memorable tunes.
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Jan 16, 2014The resulting eight songs [four-song EPs: EP-1 and EP-2] are appropriately and unambiguously mixed.
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Mar 18, 2014Sad to say, there’s not a song on EP2 that sounds like it couldn’t have been banged out by a reasonably proficient group of session musicians.
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Jan 23, 2014I really wish that Pixies still had their magic, but they don't, and it's a terrible shame for all of the parties concerned. For us as the listener, and for them as the band that are running on empty.
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Jan 16, 2014The four new songs here are less blank than the four on the first, if only marginally.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Negative: 3 out of 13
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