The Pixies: Free Download of “Bagboy’, Bands First New Song In 9 Years!

The Pixies released their first new material in 9 years today when they put out a free download of a new song called “Bagboy”. Bass player Kim Deal famously quit the influential band two weeks ago and it is has been confirmed via Pitchfork.com that while the track was recorded last October, before Deal’s departure, that Jeremy Dubs and not Deal took on bass duties for this recording.

Band leader Francis Black revealed some of the background to the new song:

“The lyrics, coincidentally, were composed at a Starbucks Coffee in Harvard Square in Cambridge, about a hundred feet from where, 25 years ago, I composed some of the lyrics to an old Pixies song called ‘Break My Body.’ Twenty-five years later, some Starbucks in Harvard Square…I thought that was kind of interesting. The music for the song has been around for a few years. There are some demos I made with Joey and David a few years ago in Los Angeles, related to a film idea that still has yet to see the light of day, although work on the music continued. So a lot of the musical idea had been kicking around for awhile. It’s pretty simple, kind of a blues-based, two-note kind of thing, really.”

You can download a free mp3 of “Bagboy” here:

And you can watch the music video here: