Surfer Rosa (Mobile Fidelity)

VINYL FORMAT. The Pixies' Surfer Rosa on numbered limited-edition 180 gram vinyl! Thanks to the painstaking efforts of Mobile Fidelity engineers, you will truly hear this groundbreaking record as if you were experiencing it for the first time. Vivid, immediate, massive, and detailed, this is how Surfer Rosa was meant to be heard when Albini completed it and turned it into the label.

The Plymouth Rock on which alternative rock was founded, the Pixies' Surfer Rosa forever altered the music environment - even if it did take most of the world a few years to catch up with its brilliance. Internationally acknowledged as a pioneering record, its rollercoaster blend of harsh and soft tempos, male and female singing, intense punk and bubblegum pop tones, dark and light quips, and off-kilter sensibilities is the influential equivalent of the Velvet Underground's oft-cited 1967 debut. The 1987 debut established the Pixies as otherworldly visionaries whose songs such as the insistent "Bone Machine," badgering "Something Against You," and sensual "Cactus" remain ahead of the curve. Having analog fanatic and noise aficionado Steve Albini working production ensured that the music would retain a requisite rawness and in-your-face sonic signature that paralleled the fundamentally chaotic, compulsive characteristics of the Pixies' songs.