“Saint Dymphna,” featuring Twin Shadows, unfolds as an updated ballad about St. Van Etten and Stewart take turns trading lines about a deteriorating relationship over a spare but shimmery backdrop in “Sad Mezcalita” marked by long synth chords and pitched drums. Unfolding across a true amalgam of sonic landscapes, Stewart is joined by the likes of Sharon Van Etten, longtime production and creative collaborator Greg Saunier ( Deerhoof), Owen Pallett, Twin Shadow, and Liars, to name just a few. It could be described as an album of duets, yet somehow, that term carries a bit too much of a classical connotation to really describe what takes place. In early 2021-after a year of whatever 2020 was-Xiu Xiu released OH NO, a 15 track record featuring collaborators on each song. Some of the best and most memorable moments jump out when a new voice or instrumentalist enters the fray. Still, one of the hallmarks of Xiu Xiu is collaboration, whether that takes the shape of producing, composing or performing across its robust discography. In 2009, Stewat’s roommate and creative co-conspirator, Angela Seo, joined to form the core duo.
Often billed as ‘experimental,’ Xiu Xiu really should rather be called ‘exploratory,’ given the breadth and nature of their influences: noise rock, punk, post-punk-roll the dice and pick a genre chances are, it’s on an album, and they’ve pushed it to the limit.Īlthough the group has taken many forms over the course of its existence, the exception has been Xiu Xiu’s founding member and creative bastion, Jamie Stewart. Saint Dymphna (George Lewis Jr.Xiu Xiu makes music that makes people pay attention.īeginning with 2002’s Knife Play, the band has, as a rule, delved into a new flavor with each subsequent release. It Bothers Me All the Time (Jonathan Meiburg / Shearwater)ġ2. A Classic Screw (Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo)ġ1. I Dream of Someone Else Entirely (Owen Pallett)ĩ. Goodbye For Good (Greg Saunier / Deerhoof)ħ. I Cannot Resist (Deb Demure / Drab Majesty)Ĥ. Instead, it is a reminder that even when we’re alone, we’re alone together.Ģ. Listening to the songs on OH NO, it is hard to feel truly alone. “Although there is an ‘I HATE PEOPLE’ pin on my guitar strap, I hate them less now.” His revelation, and the music that has come out of it, is a reminder of the power of Xiu Xiu’s music to surprise and connect. “The guest stars of OH NO reflect the types of people, and many of the very same, who helped remind me that the ratio of beautiful humans to shitty humans is more like 60/40 rather than what I have always assumed was 1/99,” says Jamie Stewart. All that intersected perfectly with the “Rumpus Room” song, and part II story of the video trilogy (1st being “A Bottle of Rum”).”
Sometimes in my old teenage journals, I find flamin’ red dusted fingerprint smudges among melodramatic poems and fake runaway notes. I was a latchkey kid and would ditch school and often go to the 7-eleven by our apartment, where some 20-year-old kid who didn’t give a crap would be working and watch me play their single arcade game–marvel-capcom– in the corner as long as I bought a slurpee and FHC. I once bet my cousin I could finish an entire Party Size bag in one sitting I won the bet but lost my sense of taste for a couple days. “Does everyone have a deep personal childhood association with Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, or just me? One of the first things I shoplifted as a kid was a bag of FHC. The forthcoming release is an album of duets with notable collaborators (including Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe, Alice Bag, Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux, Owen Pallett, Twin Shadow, along with members of Deerhoof, Drab Majesty, Shearwater, and many more) that comes out on March 26 on Polyvinyl. The song “Rumpus Room” appears on OH NO Xiu Xiu ft.
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