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Under the guidance of producer , the Pixies swapped the ambient rawness of their earlier work for a "spit-and-polish" approach. Norton pushed the band to expand their "ditties"—often short bursts under two minutes—into fully realized songs by repeating sections and layering sound. Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
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