I haven't, it's new to me. Is it on reissues or something? I've got all the original stuff so am not inclined to buy any reissue tbh
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
just on the digital versions on their bandcamp. that would be a pretty bizarre and... impractical thing to press on vinyl ha! although that would be a trip
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
Honestly your summary of the newsletter was the first I heard of it! Ash did it on 1977, barfing and drunk talk on vinyl to end the album.
It doesn't sound very appealing, drunk commentary, tbh.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
yeah I agree, I can only imagine it compounding the crushing abyssal sadness & depression of most Xiu Xiu music. although I would listen to drunk commentary for The Air Force, that's the only record they've made I consider a stone cold classic top to bottom.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
A Promise, Fabulous Muscles, Knife Play all stone cold classic to me. Still wouldn't go near a drunk commentary by mister Stewart on any one of those tbf
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
what wtf happened with shayna? that was stunningly weird and unprofessional and then I forgot all about it. Just say she isn't there anymore, don't say you fired her and then say "oh it's not that salacious". drama queens.
I've only seen xiu xiu twice, once was many years ago, and the last time was the twin peaks show, which she was at, and she seemed pretty integral to that. too bad.
― akm, Saturday, 3 February 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link
yeah they were great together both times i saw them in 2017. it was just jamie & shayna. now that i remember it, jamie mentioned at one of those shows that they last time they played here 'it was with the worst ever xiu xiu lineup, sorry' (circa 2011, jamie & two dudes i don't remember). i mean i remember right after i became obsessed with the air force, caralee mcelroy left the band under similar vaguely acrimonious circumstances, her quiting/firing entirely unexplained.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 February 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
jamie doesn't seem like someone who's a joy to work with frankly
― akm, Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
ha ha ha to say the least
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
Jamie Stewart -An Aggressive, Chain Smoking Alcoholic Record Store Day 2018Pinyon RecordsFirst solo record and horror show https://t.co/HZvqkCHyzh pic.twitter.com/tj4kZQ4ub0— Xiu Xiu (@XiuXiuforLife) March 6, 2018
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
that's a link to a new interview btw
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
Good title.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
I assumed that his solo modular synth record would be either noise or just forgettable, but this is really engaging: https://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/premiere-jamie-stewart-xiu-xiu-inconsistent-and-peculiar-volume
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
I like the song with Mitski a lot. I could go for an album of that.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 25 April 2018 12:41 (six years ago) link
his recent noise album An Aggressive, Chain Smoking Alcoholic released under Jamie Stewart is v. good
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
has anyone been keeping up with the "Drugs" series Jamie is doing? he's up to volume 6 now. he keeps saying that Angela hates it but I can't tell if that's a bit or not
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 October 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkK6GT4pkbU
new album girl with basket of fruit out in feb
― devvvine, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
Fuck yes
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
love the drums :)
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Awesome
― flappy bird, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
oh man
https://polyvinyl-public.s3.amazonaws.com/87efe7b5fa21d969f4ca491ed04b0149_b1afeb4311ea30bd96daabf36f359ea236aa2907_medium.jpg
― devvvine, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
goddammit i already have a velvet robe
― flappy bird, Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
omg where did you find that
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 6 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
help yourself
https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/store/xiu_xiu_girl_with_basket_of_fruit?mc_cid=0a4e5aac30&mc_eid=34c8c17ba7
― devvvine, Thursday, 6 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
perfect couples gift for winter ty
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 6 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
bumped another thread but since there's a thousand Xiu Xiu threads here thought I would share again that this new record is REALLY out there, even for them. in terms of abrasiveness / non-songy / insane it's second only to Angel Guts as the most crazy proper Xiu Xiu album.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah I hear you. It’s a shame that nobody seems to care about this guy anymore, consistently one of the most interesting artists working imo.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
yeah it's such a drag, especially considering how prolific he is. he had that Chain Smoking Alcoholic solo album last year and like 6 of those Drugs albums. it is strange that people aren't interested anymore, I feel like the running themes of his work (abuse, sexual violence, depression, suicide, addiction, hopelessness) are even more relevant today than they were in the 00s.
Have you heard the new one? What do you make of it, if you have?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
I just heard the Pumpkin Attack song on Spotify and really liked it. Haven’t heard the whole new album yet, looking forward to it. His Chain Smoking Alcoholic noise album was really good and of course slept on.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
ironically the song on the flexi disc that came with the LP is a pretty straightforward song in comparison
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 February 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link
I have a reverse opinion, that he’s an amazing noise artist with a wider audience than his genre/music necessarily deserves, genre/economy-wise (tho all his concerts should always be vastly sold out)
Personally I preferred the Depeche Mode-via-avant garde descendent of the first two albums to anything that came after, until Red Guts and this new one, which reinvent the aesthetic of noise but with idk hard to describe but aggressively hi-fi production choices, which is neither better or worse, it just is, but it’s extremely relistenable— I cant judge Girl/Fruit or Red Guts on the same metric as Knife Play or A Promise
But I don’t know anybody who writes well about this band
― fgti's romance (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 4 February 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link
new one sounding really good and super abrasive and fun
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 04:30 (five years ago) link
otm about it being extremely relistenable, it's definitely his most beguiling record. I haven't read along with the lyrics yet
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 February 2019 04:55 (five years ago) link
I definitely think Xiu Xiu will always be wrongly-rated because there is far more going on here than people realize (including myself). I don't think his songs are about (abuse, sexual violence, depression, suicide, addiction, hopelessness) but are pretty much, across the board, about mental garble, about the dissociative response one experiences when faced with the difficult-to-bear. He's not singing about war itself, he's singing about the feeling of reading about the war, watching TV about the war. I don't find his music comforting because he's singing anything meaningful about anything so much as I deeply identify on a personal level with the mind-spewing-information-as-a-result-of-next-to-nothing feeling that his songs seem to attempt to capture
― froggles! (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 4 February 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
Pumpkin Attack sounds like industrial techno. Is this his dance music record?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 February 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
xp maybe The Air Force is an outlier but that record deals with that stuff pretty directly - songs like Vulture Piano, PJ in the Streets, Buzz Saw, Save Me Save Me - but broadly I agree, something like Support Our Troops or I Luv Abortion, that's exactly it - unfiltered live wire trauma garble.
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
very good post imo
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
ok this might be the best thing he's ever done
― flappy bird, Saturday, 9 February 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
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― lowercase (eric), Saturday, 9 February 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
I interviewed Jamie.. he's a sweetheart
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 May 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
I don't know anyone who writes well about this band
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 14 October 2019 04:46 (four years ago) link
You want to talk about Weyes Blood, I want to talk about Girl with Basket Of Fruit
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 14 October 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
I mean it’s not easy tbh. xpHe should be one hundred times more popular than he is though.
― circa1916, Monday, 14 October 2019 05:00 (four years ago) link
touring with AJJ and Emperor X next year, joined by Jonathan Meiburg....this makes up for them cancelling their last tour. really stoked for that.
― Simon H., Monday, 18 November 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
that time again...
new album of duets 'oh no' out march 26th
some exciting features on there!
― devvvine, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
shoulda gone with
xiu xiuets
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
I'm not surprised that Jamie Stewart has an impressive Rolodex by now but that is indeed a tasty lineup:
1. Sad Mezcalita (Sharon Van Etten)2. I Cannot Resist (Deb Demure / Drab Majesty)3. The Grifters (Haley Fohr / Circuits des Yeux )4. Goodbye For Good (Greg Saunier / Deerhoof)5. OH NO (Susanne Sachsse)6. Rumpus Room (Angus Andrew / Liars)7. Fuzz Gong Fight (Angela Seo / Xiu Xiu)8. I Dream of Someone Else Entirely (Owen Pallett)9. One Hundred Years (Chelsea Wolfe) [The Cure cover]10. A Classic Screw (Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo)11. It Bothers Me All the Time (Jonathan Meiburg / Shearwater)12. Saint Dymphna (George Lewis Jr. / Twin Shadow)13. Knock Out (Alice Bag)14. A Bottle of Rum (Liz Harris / Grouper)15. ANTS (Valerie Diaz)
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
One Hundred Years (Chelsea Wolfe) [The Cure cover]
oh hell yeah
― circa1916, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yialek4fUUg
^^ the song w/ Grouper is good!
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
He's the greatest
I've seen him live a dozen times and I just wanna see him again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRPzFgUwodw
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link