Format | LP |
Label | 4AD |
Catalogue Number | CAD0010 |
The band continued to work with Gil Norton after collaborating to such success on their platinum-selling second album Doolittle; this time choosing to record in Los Angeles over their native Boston (the track ‘Blown Away’, however, was recorded at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin during a European tour in 1989). Their third album in as many years, 1990 was a particularly fertile time for the band with Kim Deal also having success with The Breeders, who released their debut album Pod just a few months prior.
Featuring the singles ‘Allison’ (a tribute to jazz and blues pianist Mose Allison), ‘Dig For Fire’ and ‘Velouria’, plus the first cover to feature on one of their albums ‘Cecilia Ann’ (originally by The Surftones), Bossanova showed a less primal side to the band, with surf and space rock rising to the fore. Lyrically, Black Francis is even more cryptic with a recurring sci-fi theme running throughout, which in turn influenced Vaughan Oliver’s classic planet design for the sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 Cecilia Ann
A2 Rock Music
A3 Velouria
A4 Allison
A5 Is She Weird
A6 Ana
A7 All Over The World
B8 Dig For Fire
B9 Down To The Well
B10 The Happening
B11 Blown Away
B12 Hang Wire
B13 Stormy Weather
B14 Havalina