The Pixies will go down as one of music history’s most influential and underrated bands of their time. Musicians like Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke have openly admitted that their sound wouldn’t be the same without the Boston quartet’s mix of loud/quiet dynamics, surreal lyrics and the screams of ‘Black Francis’. However they split up in 1991 missing the alternative wave they helped create, leaving it to their influenced ones to make all the money.

loudQUIETloud picks up the Pixies over a decade later, when their place in musical history had finally been established (thanks in no end to the alternative music scene’s and press’ pushing of the band, though a little film called Fight Club may have also helped). ‘Black Francis’ now goes by the name Frank Black and releases alt-country records. Bassist Kim Deal (also of the Breeders) looks after her mum. Joey Santiago, the man whose guitar still sounds unique is domesticated and does a bit of music, and drummer Dave Lovering among other things is a magician. Lovering in particular feels the lack of rewards from his time with the Pixies, just getting by with royalty checks and a bit of magician work.

In 2004, the Pixies reunite for a world tour for which Santiago ended up making t-shirts entitled the “Pixies Sell-out” (obviously the two meanings). This conventionally filmed music documentary follows the Pixies around – we see Lovering’s battle with speed, the fact Deal and Black deal with their past conflict by not talking to each other, and most of all, for Pixies fans, some still-killer live performances. While loudQUIETloud won't have the extra level of fascination to draw new people into the film (there’s no Hell’s Angels killing for example, or someone like Daniel Johnston), it will certainly please fans of this great band.—Brannavan Gnanalingam