Bossanova is the third Pixies album. The band continued to work with Gil Norton after collaborating to such success on their platinum-selling second album Doolittle. 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 Olivers classic planet design for the sleeve.

Tracklisting:

1/A1. Cecilia Ann

2/A2. Rock Music

3/A3. Velouria

4/A4. Allison

5/A5. Is She Weird

6/A6. Ana

7/A7. All Over The World

8/B1. Dig For Fire

9/B2. Down To The Well

10/B3. The Happening

11/B4. Blown Away

12/B5. Hang Wire

13/B6. Stormy Weather

14/B7. Havalina