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|When we spoke with Kim Deal just last week, she told us that the Pixies had no plans for new music in the works. But according to Rolling Stone, the Pixies' old stuff is about to get some serious royal treatment.
Last night, a flurry of rumors about a new Pixies album hit the internet after the design collective Artist in Residence posted a note on their website. That note consisted of just seven words: Pixies, Minotaur, Available for pre-order June 15th. But while Minotaur isn't a new Pixies studio album, it's something nearly as cool: A box set of all their studio albums, with revamped artwork and all sorts of extra goodness. The set, available in both Limited Edition and Deluxe Edition forms, will include the band's four albums and the Come On Pilgrim EP. Vaughan Oliver and Simon Larbalestier, the photographers who shot the covers for those albums, will be in charge of the repackaging.
Artist in Residence founder Jeff Anderson, who is overseeing the set, tells Rolling Stone that the albums won't be remastered because he didn't want to touch the original masters. The set won't include any live tracks, and the folks in charge are still figuring out what to do about bonus tracks. But there will be bonus artwork. And given that Artist in Residence had a hand in the gorgeous designs for box sets like Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV, they know what they're doing here.
The Deluxe Edition, which will go for $175, will include the albums on 24k layered CDs. It'll also include a Blu-Ray DVD featuring a 1991 Brixton Academy show and all the band's videos, along with additional artwork and a 54-page book. The whole package will come with a slipcase. Recession-proof completists, however, may want to go for the $450 Limited Edition, a very serious fetish object. The Limited Edition set, which comes in a custom clamshell, will feature all the albums on 180-gram vinyl, along with a Giclée print of Oliver’s artwork and a 72-page hardcover book.
In other news, the Pixies will play the UK's Isle of Wight Festival on June 14. When we talked to Deal, she told us that they'd play a few more European shows this summer, so stay tuned for those. Deal's other band, the Breeders, self-released a four-song EP called Fate to Fatal today. They also curated the ATP Weekend that runs April 15-17, and all this new Pixies activity makes me wonder if they've got a surprise performance in store.