Paz Lenchantin, who performed bass within the Pixies between 2014 and 2024 following stints in Zwan and A Good Circle, is re-launching her solo profession with the upcoming LP Triste. The album arrives October 17, and she or he’s simply dropped leadoff single “Hold Powerful” together with a video.
“I needed to make this file by myself,” Lenchantin says in a press release, “to not show something, however simply to have religion that music can nurture me again. And it did.”
Lenchantin created a lot of the music on Triste herself, however she did recruit two of her former Good Circle bandmates — drummer Josh Freese and guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen — to hitch her within the studio. She was additionally accompanied by Spanish-speaking musicians she met after posting a discover on Instagram.
The album started to take form final 12 months in Petatlán, Mexico, when Lenchantin wrote a collection of songs a couple of younger girl falling in love with Jesus. “Lenchantin isn’t essentially spiritual,” reads an official album bio, “she noticed the story as a metaphor for salvation: the human drive to seek for a god, or god-like determine, and to commit your self to one thing that can’t love you again…This guiding metaphor formed the album’s dream-like logic, with every lyric refracting a fraction of Lenchantin’s personal life into broader analogy.”
“What was particular to me in making this album was that I realized who I’m, this far into my journey in music, just by permitting myself the liberty of my very own alternative,” Lenchantin stated. “It turned like witnessing a fallen tree in my very own forest, with out the necessity to yell ‘timber.’”
The music is an unlimited departure from her work with the Pixies. She joined the alt-rock icons in 2014 after the group parted methods with bassist Kim Shattuck. “Charles [Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis] is the best artist I’ve ever labored with,” she instructed Rolling Stone in 2022 as a part of our Unknown Legends interview collection. “I was like, ‘This is lacking on this band, and this is lacking on this band…’ However working with Charles, Joey [Santiago], and David [Lovering] actually glued me collectively and accomplished me in each method I used to be on the lookout for. It truly is the height of the mountain.”
In 2024, after recording three albums with them and touring the world many occasions over, the Pixies introduced that they have been parting methods together with her. “My departure is a little bit of a shock to me as it’s to many,” Lenchantin instructed Rolling Stone when the information broke, “however it seems to be like they’ve a strong plan discovered, which in flip has pushed me to maneuver onwards onto new tasks that I’m enthusiastic about.”
Not lengthy afterward, a “main artist” requested Lenchantin if she’d be a part of her band as a bass participant. “I froze,” she says within the album bio, stating that her previous experiences in high-profile teams left her “traumatized.” “And the way far can that get you?” she asks, noting that she turned down the gig in favor of making Triste. “In any other case,” she stated, “you’re simply going round in a circle.”
The Triste monitor checklist:
1 – Novela
2 – Lows & Highs
3 – Girl Of Nazareth
4 – Hold Powerful
5 – Want I Was There
6 – Si No!
7 – In The Backyard With The Satan
8 – Adam
9 – Lucia
10 – Sin Dios
11 – Save It For Hell
12 – Triste
