The Pixies are back with their first album in 23 years. <br /><br />‘Indie Cindy’ is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band and the first not to feature bass guitar player Kim Deal, who left in 2012.<br /><br />Lead guitarist Joey Santiago explains why it took them so long to make a new record: “We don’t have a boss, I think we treat the audience like our boss, we think (about) what they want. With social media you kind of get that right away and after a while they just started (saying), ‘We want a new record, we want a new record’ so it started happening, right? So we gotta listen to the boss.”<br /><br />The album combines all the songs from the band’s last three extended play releases, recorded in 2012 by veteran Pixies producer Gil Norton.<br /><br />It has received mixed reviews by critics. While some have called it “stale”, others say that, at its best, the album is “free-sounding, adventurous and explosive”.<br /><br />The Pixies are currently touring Australia, before heading to Europe and Israel.
