Vinyl Record
Pixies - The Night The Zombies Came
Pixies - The Night The Zombies Came on LP vinyl. A 2024 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2024
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2024 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
The Night The Zombies Came is the 2024 Pixies album that places the band's late period inside a knowingly strange, cinematic frame. Arriving after Doggerel and with Emma Richardson joining on bass and vocals, it is not a re-enactment of the 1987-1991 legend. It is a veteran Pixies record that accepts the band now works through mood, craft and crooked storytelling as much as through impact. You're So Impatient and Chicken push forward with compact menace; Jane (The Night The Zombies Came) and Oyster Beds lean into the record's undead, maritime and folktale imagery; Motoroller and The Vegas Suite show Black Francis still enjoying the collision of American vernacular, absurd violence and melodic snap. The title may suggest horror camp, but the album's value is in how naturally those images fit a band that has always made the everyday feel haunted, comic and unstable.
The album matters because it shows the Pixies' second life continuing as an active catalogue rather than a touring appendix. With a new bassist in the lineup and a clear nocturnal concept, it gives the 2020s Pixies a distinct chapter instead of leaning only on old shock.
For collectors, The Night The Zombies Came is a late-era marker: useful for tracing the post-reunion albums from Indie Cindy through Beneath The Eyrie and Doggerel into a new lineup. It is strongest for listeners who want the whole Pixies story, not only the canonical first run.
Late Pixies with surf-noir guitar, dry alt-rock bite, horror-film imagery, Black Francis folk absurdity, compact hooks and bass-vocal colour from the newer lineup.
Recommended for: Pixies collectors following the post-reunion catalogue; Listeners curious about Emma Richardson's first Pixies album; Fans of gothic and horror-tinged alternative rock; Collectors who value late-career band chapters.
When was The Night The Zombies Came released? The Night The Zombies Came was released in 2024 as a later Pixies studio album. Who is new in this Pixies era? Emma Richardson joined the band on bass and vocals for this era, following Paz Lenchantin's departure. Which tracks introduce the album's mood? You're So Impatient, Chicken, Jane (The Night The Zombies Came), Oyster Beds and Motoroller sketch its mix of drive, surreal humour and undead imagery.