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Oct 23, 2024It’s when the pattern deviates somewhat from the expected that ‘The Night The Zombies Came’ is at its most exciting: the ’50s sonic cues that peppered ‘Doggerel’ remain, but the spite doesn’t.
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Oct 25, 2024You’re So Impatient rattles along like a lost mid-’60s garage-psychedelia nugget, but with a simmering fury that lurks unresolved. The near title track, Jane (The Night the Zombies Came) gives baroque chamber-pop a surreal cinematic twist, with its Morricone twang and offbeat “Jane!” chorus shouts.
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Oct 25, 2024‘The Night the Zombies Came’ isn’t an album for the uninspired or your average Joe – it’s a bible for the daydreaming visionary who finds beauty in the mundane.
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Oct 21, 2024The Night the Zombies Came is another surefooted step forward for them, an album on which they seem to have reconciled their past and are determined, with their new lineup, to forge a new direction.
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Oct 17, 2024This most thrillingly deathly of bands remains alive. [Dec 2024, p.90]
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Classic Rock MagazineOct 17, 2024This album drops its bombs with honed precision, the band's experience evident as both the key musical genres - loud and quiet - are deployed with scorching smarts. [Nov 2024, p.77]
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Oct 28, 2024The Night the Zombies Came is at its best when the band leans into the drama that has always made them stand out from the crowd. "Chicken" is one such moment, a sidewinding mood piece that swings between pride and desperation as wildly as Santiago's twanging, squalling fretwork. However, the album's brightest gem is "Jane (The Night the Zombies Came)."
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Oct 28, 2024By now, fans should be used to Black’s shape-shifting nature (is it Black Francis, Frank Black, or plain old Charles Thompson?), which is on full display here. Just as we all gravitate toward a Frank Black solo release or two, listeners might just prefer The Night the Zombies Came over others. At the very least, they will enjoy some signature moments, perhaps finally accepting that nothing will compare to the original thing.
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Oct 25, 2024It’s light, supple and tender, full of balladry and spacey (almost psychedelic) arrangements that seek to soothe and soften your mood rather than make you want to breathe fire (as their early work was wont to do). Unfortunately, it also challenges Indie Cindy for the unfortunate title of ‘most inconsistent Pixies album’ – it is, however, better than that record.
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Dec 5, 2024Ultimately, The Night the Zombies Came probably won’t live up to the expectations of fans wanting to relive the glory of Pixies in their prime, but it also shows flashes of their authentic sound that prove the band still have the ability to capture the essence of what makes Pixies so captivating and is a positive nod to the band’s enduring legacy.