Come On Pilgrim

Come On Pilgrim is the first release from Pixies, an American alternative rock band, issued as a mini-album on 4AD on 28 September 1987. Gary Smith produced it, and its eight tracks come from a seventeen-song session the band recorded at Fort Apache Studios in March 1987.

Those recordings are what won the band their deal. 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell signed Pixies on the strength of them, then trimmed the session down to eight songs and remixed them for release. The other nine stayed unreleased until 2002, when they appeared under the title Pixies. For anyone tracing the band's story, this is where it starts, a short, sharp introduction that sits just before the studio albums Surfer Rosa and Doolittle. It is well worth hearing for its mix of alternative rock, indie rock and noise pop.