“Nasty Sex, Nastier Death, And Beautifully Strange Birth.”

Black Francis gets ready to drop mini-album.

The man sure has a thing about fingers. Black Francis, he of Pixies fame and the artist occasionally known as Frank Black, has announced that he’ll be following up his 2007 album ‘Bluefinger’ with a mini-album called ‘Svn Fngrs’. As regards the record format, Black had this to say:

“There are seven songs clocking in at 20 minutes, and so I suppose it qualifies as a mini-LP under the old formats. No one seems to know or care what the current format models are (a very weakened LP on compact disc continues to rule the roost by default), which is WONDERFUL; so let’s just call it music and pay whatever price your Google research turns up. If you want it for free, you can usually find some tracks for free download on my MySpace page or on my own blackfrancis.net.”

Asked to elaborate on the subject matter, Black described the themes of the record as revolving ” around a lot of NASTY sex, NASTIER death, and beautifully strange birth.”

Sounds typically, gloriously Black Francis.

‘Svn Fngrs’ is released April 1 via Cooking Vinyl.

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