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Album Review: Xiu Xiu’s OH NO! is a return to form, and a celebration of everything that has made them great.
To me, Xiu Xiu has always been a project marked by its ambition; whether it’s finding new ways to express the spirit of musical heavyweights like Nina Simone or Angelo Badalamenti, or forging a new kind of visceral yet fragile sound on albums like A Promise or 2019’s Girl with Basket of Fruit. Jamie Stewart’s …
See: Xiu Xiu return with a video for new single ‘A bottle of rum’, featuring Liz Harris
Out via Polyvinyl on March 26th is the new album Xiu Xiu, ‘Oh No’, a collection of duets. From it, the band have released a new video for lead single ‘A bottle of rum’, in which they reaquaint themselves with Liz Harris, who previously collaborated on 2007’s Creepshow. Of the track, Stewart from the band …
ALBUM REVIEW: of Montreal – UR FUN
In ‘San Junipero‘, the exquisite (and greatest, in my view) Black Mirror episode about love, life and death, the main characters, Yorkie and Kelly, walk through a world peppered with non-stop party music from different eras, in search of truth and redemption. Sometimes they visit a club on the margins called the Quagmire where freaks …
Album Review: Of Montreal – Innocence Reaches
Kevin Barnes has played many roles in his nearly 20 year music career. There was the folksy pop guy, the jilted lover, the struggling husband and father, the party monster, the transvestite hooker, the avante garde composer, and the rock and roll warrior. But the role Barnes plays best is Kevin Barnes. The guy that’s …