Pixies - Trompe Le Monde (2026 Remaster)(4AD)

Continuing the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations, and hot on the heels of the first official vinyl pressing of their brilliant 4AD B-Sides compilation, Pixies repress studio albums ‘Bossanova’ (1990) and ‘Trompe le Monde’ (1991) on both black vinyl and CD.  These represses feature newly remastered audio with engineer Kevin Vanbergen having returned to the band’s original analogue tapes to deliver stunning new masters that excitingly reveal more layers to these much-loved records.

‘Trompe le Monde’ bookended a golden run of landmark records released in quick succession that cemented Pixies as one of the best of a generation.

Translated from French to mean “fool the world”, Trompe le Monde showed the band still restless to push their sound forward. With producer Gil Norton again at the controls, their fourth album is arguably their most playful with Black Francis’s lyrics on UFOs and conspiracy theories keeping things weird while power pop creeps in to amplify the space rock established on predecessor ‘Bossanova’.

‘Trompe le Monde’ goes full throttle with 15 tracks coming in a quickfire 40-minute salvo. It proved to be the end of act one for the band with them taking over a decade before returning to stage together.

Tracklist  

Trompe le Monde

Planet of Sound

Alec Eiffel

The Sad Punk

Head On

U-Mass

Palace of the Brine

Letter to Memphis

Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons

Space (I Believe In)

Subbacultcha

Distance Equals Rate Times Time

Lovely Day

Motorway to Roswell

The Navajo Know

Version: Black Vinyl LP

Released: 11^th September 2026

Catalogue Number: 4AD0904LP

Condition: New Sealed