Following the critical success of 2005's "Honeycomb", Pixies icon Frank Black releases his ambitious new double CD "Fast Man / Raider Man". Paired again with producer Jon Tiven, the 27-song CD was recorded over a two-year period at studios in Nashville and Los Angeles, and slams a bit harder than the laid-back "Honeycomb".
"Fastman/Raiderman" features some of the most celebrated players in music, including Levon Helm from The Band, Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Heartbreaker drummer Steve Ferrone, the legendary Al Kooper, honky-tonk hero Marty Brown, songwriting enigma P.F. Sloan, and Simon Kirke from Bad Company and Free, as well as "Honeycomb" 'returnees' Steve Cropper, Reggie Young, Buddy Miller, Spooner Oldman and Chester Thompson, to name just a few.
Songs on "Fastman/Raiderman" include the somewhat bizarre 'Kiss My Ring', the almost hallucinogenic 'Dog Sleep', and the overlay of the lyrically obscure and the bodypunch, visceral groove of 'In the Time of My Ruin'. 'Highway to Lowdown', 'Sad Man's Song', and 'Where the Wind Is Going' were originally recorded for "Honeycomb" but didn't match that album's laid-back feel so have been in hibernation until now. 'Fitzgerald' and 'Elijah' look back to when Black and the Pixies were just beginning to turn rock music inside out from their home base in Boston, and 'My Terrible Ways' is a true, tragic story of heroism in the devastation in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina. As Black is fond of doing, some of the new songs were recorded in a single 24-hour marathon session with musicians coming and going in three shifts and only one two-hour break for some shuteye.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. If Your Poison Gets You
2. Johnny Barleycom
3. Fast Man
4. You Can't Crucify Yourself
5. Dirty Old Town
6. Wanderlust
7. Seven Days
8. Raider Man
9. End Of The Summer
10. Dog Sleep
11. When The Paint Grows Darker Still
12. I'm Not Dead ( I'm In Pittsburgh)
13. Golden Shore

Disc 2:

1. In The Time Of My Ruin
2. Down To You
3. Highway To Lowdown
4. Kiss My Ring
5. My Terrible Ways
6. Fitzgerald
7. Elijah
8. IT's Not Just Your Moment
9. Real El Ray
10. Where The Wind Is Going
11. Holland Town
12. Sad Old World
13. Don't Cry That Way
14. Fare The Well