Any fans here?
I contend that Xiu Xiu is the only contempoary music group that I can replay over and over and yet feel no decay in the emotional intensity of the songs. Amazing. Depressing as hell, but amazing.
For the unaquainted, you can download three of their songs on this website (including one of the upcoming LP “Fabulous Muscles”:
http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/factsheets/xiuxiu/
Some of my favorite Jamie Stewart-isms:
Fabulous Muscles / Cremate me after you come on my lips
Place my ashes in a vase / Beneath your work-out bench
This is the worst vacation ever / I’m going to cut open your forehead with a roofing shingle
I will take it too far! The twenty-hundred private loops making up my AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Ian Curtis-- I can’t believe I said it!-- wishlist!