Editing Pixies (band) (section)

===Lenchantin's departure, arrival of Richardson and ''The Night the Zombies Came'' (2024–present)===
[[File:Pixies_KTF_March_2024.jpg|thumb|The Pixies in 2024, including Emma Richardson (right)]]
On 4 March 2024, the Pixies announced that Lenchantin had left "to concentrate on her own projects".<ref name=":0" /> In a statement to ''Rolling Stone'', Lenchantin said that the choice was not hers and that her "departure [was] a bit of a surprise to [her] as it is to many".<ref name=":0" /> She was replaced on the following tour by Emma Richardson, formerly of [[Band of Skulls]].<ref name=":0" /> The tour celebrated the Pixies' third and fourth albums, [[Bossanova (Pixies album)|''Bossanova'']] (1990) and ''[[Trompe le Monde]]'' (1991), with Francis describing it as "delightful".<ref name="RollingStoneZombies">{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pixies-the-night-the-zombies-came-album-1235065123/|title=The Pixies Battle the Undead and Welcome Their Latest Bass Player on New ‘Zombies’ Album|website=[[Rolling Stone Magazine]]|last=Greene|first=Andy|date=July 24, 2024|access-date=July 24, 2024}}</ref> In June, the Pixies released the single "You're So Impatient", Richardson's first studio credit with the band.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-03 |title=Pixies Share New Song "You’re So Impatient" & Cover Doris Day's "Que Sera, Sera": Listen |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2266171/pixies-youre-so-impatient-que-sera-sera-doris-day-cover/music/ |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}</ref>

On October 25, 2024, the Pixies released their ninth full-length studio album, ''[[The Night the Zombies Came]]'', produced by [[Tom Dalgety]], who also worked on their previous three studio albums.<ref name="RollingStoneZombies"/> Regarding the title, Francis said: "It's not like I wrote a bunch of songs about zombies or that we tried to make the album sound scary or anything like that. 'Zombie' is just an associative word. You can do with it what you like. And it's not a concept record, but that word kept popping up in the lyrics. When I combed through all the other lyrics for a title, they just sounded corny as shit. The only thing that made sense was ''The Night the Zombies Came''. And I was like, 'You know what? That's a pretty good title. I'd go see that movie.'"<ref name="RollingStoneZombies"/> The album was preceded by the singles "You're So Impatient", "Chicken", "Oyster Beds" and "Motoroller".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Tyler |title=Pixies have announced their tenth studio album, The Night the Zombies Came, alongside the lead single "Chicken". |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/pixies-announce-forthcoming-album-the-night-the-zombies-came |website=The Line of Best Fit |access-date=24 July 2024}}</ref>