Indie Cindy

Indie Cindy is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band the Pixies. Released in April 2014, it was the band's first album since 1991's Trompe le Monde, and the first Pixies album not to feature bass guitar player Kim Deal.[2] Instead, bass guitar duties on the album are handled by Simon "Dingo" Archer, a former member of the British post-punk band The Fall.[3]

Indie Cindy
Studio album by Pixies
Released	April 19, 2014 (2014-04-19)
Recorded	2012
Studio	Rockfield Studios, Rockfield, Wales Sonelab, Easthampton, Massachusetts The Autumn Den, Northampton, Massachusetts
Genre	Alternative rock indie rock pop rock
Length	45:49
Label	Pixiesmusic, PIAS[1]
Producer	Gil Norton
Pixies chronology
Trompe le Monde (1991) Indie Cindy (2014) Head Carrier (2016)
Singles from Indie Cindy
"Bagboy" Released: July 2013

The album combines all the songs from the band's 2013–14 extended play releases—EP1, EP2, and EP3—which were recorded and produced in 2012 by Gil Norton, who produced the band's previous albums Doolittle, Bossanova, and Trompe le Monde.[4]

Limited numbers of vinyl copies of the album were released on Record Store Day 2014 (double album but pressed at 45 rpm), 10 days prior to the album's full release. These copies came with a single-sided 7" single of "Women of War".[1][5] The album was released in North America on April 29, 2014 as a digital download, digipak CD and 2LP vinyl as well as a deluxe edition on CD or vinyl which included a live CD and a 40-page hardback book.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	5.8/10[7]
Metacritic	62/100[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[10]
The Guardian	[11]
The Independent	[12]
The Irish Times	[13]
NME	7/10[14]
Pitchfork	2.5/10[15]
Q	[16]
Rolling Stone	[17]
Spin	6/10[18]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Indie Cindy received an average score of 62 based on 32 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[8]

Track listing

All songs written by Black Francis.

Standard edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"What Goes Boom"	3:32
2.	"Greens and Blues"	3:46
3.	"Indie Cindy"	4:41
4.	"Bagboy"	4:52
5.	"Magdalena 318"	3:26
6.	"Silver Snail"	3:29
7.	"Blue Eyed Hexe"	3:11
8.	"Ring the Bell"	3:34
9.	"Another Toe in the Ocean"	3:46
10.	"Andro Queen"	3:23
11.	"Snakes"	3:45
12.	"Jaime Bravo"	4:24
Total length:		45:49

Deluxe edition bonus disc (Live in the USA 2014)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bone Machine"	3:09
2.	"Hey"	3:17
3.	"Ana"	2:15
4.	"Magdalena 318"	3:27
5.	"Snakes"	3:21
6.	"Indie Cindy"	4:09
7.	"I've Been Tired"	2:50
8.	"Head On"	2:08
9.	"The Sad Punk"	2:40
10.	"Distance Equals Rate Times Time"	1:17
11.	"Something Against You"	1:40
12.	"Isla De Encanta"	1:36
13.	"Planet of Sound"	3:27
Total length:		1:21:05

Bonus 7" single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Women of War"

Personnel

Pixies

• Black Francis – vocals, guitar, backing vocals on "Bagboy"
• Joey Santiago – lead guitar
• David Lovering – drums, backing vocals on "Women of War" and "Bagboy"

Additional musicians

• Ding (Simon "Dingo" Archer) – bass guitar
• Jeremy Dubs – backing vocals
• Paz Lenchantin – bass guitar and backing vocals on deluxe edition[19] tracks and "Women of War"

Technical

• Gil Norton – production, engineering, mixing
• Justin Pizzoferrato – additional engineering (Sonelab])
• Mike Stitsinger – additional engineering (The Autumn Den)
• Dan Austin – mixing
• Miles Wilson – mixing (live tracks)
• Vaughan Oliver – art direction, design
• Michael Speed – design assistance, xp illustration
• Ian Pollock – character illustration

Charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
scope="row"	US Billboard 200[20]	23
scope="row"	US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[21]	3
scope="row"	US Independent Albums (Billboard)[22]	6
scope="row"	US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[23]	8
scope="row"	US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[24]	1
scope="row"	Australian Albums (ARIA)[25]	21
scope="row"	Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[26]	11
scope="row"	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[27]	11
scope="row"	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[28]	16
scope="row"	Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[29]	34
scope="row"	Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[30]	44
scope="row"	French Albums (SNEP)[31]	16
scope="row"	German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[32]	10
scope="row"	Irish Albums (IRMA)[33]	4
scope="row"	Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[34]	23
scope="row"	New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[35]	33
scope="row"	Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[36]	32
scope="row"	Portuguese Albums (AFP)[37]	21
scope="row"	Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[38]	29
scope="row"	Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[39]	57
scope="row"	Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[40]	23
scope="row"	UK Albums (OCC)[41]	6
scope="row"	UK Independent Albums (OCC)[42]	2
scope="row"	UK Digital Albums (OCC)[43]	19

Commercial performance

In 2016. it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 75,000 copies throughout Europe.[44] As of 2015, sales in the United States have exceeded 34,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[45]

Release history

Indie Cindy

Region	Date	Edition	Label
International	19 April 2014	Limited edition vinyl exclusively for Record Store Day[1]	Pixiesmusic, PIAS
Japan	23 April 2014	CD, LP, DD, deluxe edition[46]
International	28 April 2014	CD, LP, DD, deluxe[46]
North America	29 April 2014	CD, LP, DD, deluxe[46]

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