These past few years, which also saw Black trying his hand at the singer-songwriter game in Memphis, aren't accounted for on 93-03, which covers the first nine albums of his solo career (plus a bonus live disc recorded last year that touches on some recent material). Then, Black settled into a sort of quirky classic rock phase with the Catholics, and has now spent the last several years in reflection, revisiting the Pixies with a reunion of the band itself and with his own solo re-examination of songs he made with the band on the two-disc set Frank Black Francis. In the beginning, he sounded like someone who'd just broken up Pixies, and his first two solo albums- Teenager of the Year, in particular- are nearly on par with his work in the band. For a guy whose individual records can be so willfully fragmented, Frank Black's solo career has run in a straight line.
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