Jeez, Forget is pretty great. I had listened a couple times back when it leaked, but I was really put off by it. Every time I heard something, I thought of how abrasiveness and grotesque I find the opening seconds of the album and in my head I had built it up that the whole album sounded like that. Anyways, revisited today and I am quite impressed tbh.
Jamie details some of the things that informed the new album here. Shit is gonna be wild. A Guide to Xiu Xiu's Girl with Basket of Fruit
Anybody check the full album yet? I think it's brilliant. I can't imagine any of these songs being played live though; this album sounds truly alien
Okay, this is incredible, some of it is almost danceable in the most abstract sense of the word I love how after disorienting you for most of the record they manage to disorient you again by ending on something so disarmingly pretty
Revisiting the early records because it's been a couple years and it's amazing how well Knife Play has aged
If you type xiu xiu into your Apple Music search and click "Artists", the #2 result is Dave Matthews Band
Dear God, Forget or Always might be a nice way to show it’s not all so...scary but fuck yeah Knife Play is so good lol It’s all so good, I’m back down the rabbit hole. Hoping Angel Guts will grow on me this time through the discog, did the first three today