Well, a new studio album may not be immediately in the pipeline, but here's a treat for Pixies fans to compensate.
Details have been announced of a new double album from Frank Back titled 'Frank Black Francis' which will feature 15 pre-Pixies demos on one disc and 13 new recordings of Pixies songs with Two Pale Boys' Andy Diagram and Keith Moline.
Speaking to Billboard about the album Black explained he has re-recorded tracks in a bid to enhance the demos of songs such as 'Caribou', which are of substandard audio quality but have been in high demand: "I did them to balance out the shittiness of this little time-capsule piece, so that Joe Blow, who may not know who the heck I am or who the Pixies are, wouldn't feel completely ripped off if he buys this".
Of the sessions with Diagram and Moline, Black chuckled, "I just sang some lyrics into a microphone and said, 'See you later,' and then they went nuts. It's this sort of freeform, not jazzy, but kind of new-age-y weirdo thing. It's not really like a new record. It's more like an experiment."