Grunge icons Pixies have released their brand-new single “Human Crime”. The track marks the group’s first release of new material since 2020. The new track dropped on Wednesday 2nd March 2022 via Infectious/BMG and was released as a digitally exclusive single. “Human Crime” is the group’s latest release since the 2020 non-album track “Hear Me Out”, the single was the side A track of a limited edition 12-inch single released October 2020. The group took to Instagram to announce the release of their new single.
The legendary group’s new single was written by Charles Thompson, otherwise known as Black Francis, frontman of Pixies. Thompson is the artist’s birth name, and the singer also writes and performs as a solo artist under the moniker Frank Black. The track was produced and mixed by Tom Dalgety, the British producer and engineer who is also known for his work with Royal Blood and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2019.
Alongside a traditional release schedule, “Human Crime” also dropped with an accompanying music video. The single’s press release has provided the following statement concerning the music video, “Directed by Pixies’ Paz Lenchantin and filmed in the Los Angeles area at the San Pedro abandoned bunkers and Santa Monica’s Gold Diggers Bar, the “Human Crime” music video gives the viewer a glimpse into a nether world of fairies, situated just around that next corner, parallel to our dimension, rarely seen or experienced. As Lenchantin said, “The storyline is loosely based on an ‘inside joke’ between Charles and I about going on tour. How we go through a door from our reality state into the altered state of becoming and being a Pixie.”
The band have also confirmed that they will be hitting the road this year for their 2022-2023 World Tour, the upcoming tour will be the group’s first series of live shows in over two years. Since the release of their new single, fans have been eagerly excited to purchase tickets to catch the band’s new music live. The new track’s press release has provided a prediction of what ticketholders can expect, “As is the band’s norm, Pixies will draw from some 100 well-rehearsed songs from their extensive catalogue (and possibly a surprise or two) to play whatever they want, whenever they want, in whatever order they want. Indeed, no two Pixies sets are ever alike.”
The tour will kickstart on 15th March 2022 with a performance in Tucson and will continue with two more US dates, after a set at Mexico’s Vive Latino 2022, the band will perform at BBC 6 Music Festival on 1st April 2022. The set at the Welsh music event will mark the “Debaser” group’s first UK performance since 2019, for fans who cannot make it to the live event the performance will be broadcasted live to enjoy at home. The band’s set will be available to watch on BBC Radio 6 via Tune In, BBC TV and on the iPlayer via the BBC red button. Throughout the remaining Summer months, the group will perform across the UK and Europe, the tour’s concluding show will take place at the End Of The Road Festival from 1st-4th September 2022.
Pixies UK tour dates
01/04/2022 – BBC 6 Music Festival – Cardiff
05/07 – Castlefield Bowl – Manchester
08/07 – British Summer Time Festival 2022 – London|
03/08 – Corn Exchange – Edinburgh
04/08 – Kelvingrove Park – Glasgow
05/08 – Times Square – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
07/08 – Bingley Weekender – Bingley
01-04/09 – End of the Road Festival 2022 – Handley
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