I think I have a better understanding after listening to this of why I’ve never fully gone all in on the Pixies or Frank Black. There are so many great ideas and yet I feel like it’s rare that they add up to make great songs. With this album specifically, it’s like Frank is always more interested in the next song than in making the current one really, really good. Swear to God, if you combined every three songs on this record into a single song, you’d be left with like 7 pretty damn good songs. But that’s not what we get. “Headache” is excellent and there were others I liked. But the album as a whole is more like a quilt of disparate and interesting ideas when all I want it to be is a really good warm blanket.