life is too short to listen to old music
Xiu Xiu
country: USA
genre: Alternative
styles: Experimental, Industrial, Punk, Art Rock
Next Release
via Polyvinyl Records
ABOUT THIS BAND
Over the course of the last two decades, Xiu Xiu’s prolific output of critically acclaimed albums and collaborations has been consistent and dazzling. They’ve released many full-length albums that have been praised in outlets such as The New Yorker, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, NME and others, and have toured the globe relentlessly, performing at places like The Guggenheim, Primavera Festival, Benicassim Festival, Pitchfork Festival and others.
Xiu Xiu has spent twenty years grappling with how to process, to be empathetic towards, to disobey and to reorganize horror. Ignore Grief is a record of halves. Angela Seo sings on half of the record. Jamie Stewart sings on half of the record. Half of it is real. Half of it is imaginary. The real songs attempt to turn the worst life has offered to five people the band is connected with into some kind of desperate shape that does something, anything, other than grind and brutalize their hearts and memory within these stunningly horrendous experiences. The imaginary songs are an expansion and abstract exploration of the early rock and roll “Teen Tragedy” genre as jumping off point to decontaminate the band’s own overwhelming emotions in knowing and living with what has happened to these five people.
Source [Spotify]Releases
Single
Common Loon
out on June 25, 2024
via Polyvinyl Records
LP
Ignore Grief
out on March 03, 2023
via Polyvinyl Records
Single
Pahrump
out on February 15, 2023
via Polyvinyl Records
Single
Maybae Baeby
out on January 12, 2023
via Polyvinyl Records
Single
A Real Indication
out on August 19, 2021
via Polyvinyl Records
LP
Dear God I Hate Myself (Deluxe Reissue)
out on July 30, 2021
via Kill Rock Stars
LP
OH NO
out on March 26, 2021
via Polyvinyl Records
Videos
Common Loon [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
June 25, 2024
Pahrump [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
February 15, 2023
Maybae Baeby [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
January 12, 2023
Rumpus Room [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
March 04, 2021
Concerts
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