El NYT dedica un extenso artículo a The Pixies y su retorno a las arenas. The reunited Pixies charged into «Monkey Gone to Heaven,» a song about apocalypse and faith. The audience — some who had seen the Pixies between 1986 and 1992, and an equal contingent of younger fans getting their first glimpse — all knew what to do as Frank Black started to sing the song’s reverse countdown: «If man is five/ Then the devil is six/ And if the devil is six/ Then God is seven.» At 39, he looked less like a rock star than ever: bald, portly, dressed in a shapeless T-shirt. He barely glanced at Kim Deal, 43, the band’s bassist and occasional singer. Yet as he worked his way from a strangled, nasal whine to a shriek, the whole room sang along, and thousands of hands shot into the air with fingers raised on cue: five, six, seven. The crowd couldn’t have been more enthusiastic if the song, released in 1989, were in the current Top 10.

Debo decir que no he oido mucho de los Pixies, y que lo que escuché no me entusiasmó, supongo que debería darles una segunda oportunidad. Algún día.