![]() Xiu Xiu’s OH NO will be released March 26th on Polyvinyl Records. Xiu Xiu’s Angela Seo directed its accompanying visuals, the second part in a trilogy that began with “A Bottle of Rum”, which finds the characters she and Stewart previously portrayed terrorizing their own manifested dance floor after a snack food bender. As far as I’m concerned, these two albums are among the greatest experimental and noise rock released of the past 20 years, respectively.īoth Xiu Xiu and Liars have broken their own molds repeatedly since then, but it’s a huge geekout moment to hear these two longstanding gonzo forces in the musical universe intersect on “Rumpus Room”, the latest single off Xiu Xiu’s forthcoming collaborative-heavy album OH NO The listen, like both artists, walks a fine line between the abstract and tangible, as assymetrical dance-punk motions are induced by the consumption of Flaming Hot Cheetos as Jamie Stewart and Angus Andrew lock up in spoken and shouted word. In 2004, two of the most seminal albums in my growth as a listener were released between Xiu Xiu’s accessibly fucked art-pop move Fabulous Muscles and Liars’ critically misunderstood freakout They Were Wrong So We Drowned. Watch the video for “A Bottle Of Rum” by Xiu Xiu’s Angela Seo below.Video: Xiu Xiu feat. Stewart’s voice is a natural fit for the booming blast, and this might be the most boisterous thing that Liz Harris has ever sung on – and she sounds great as ever. Indeed, the stars have aligned magnificently on “A Bottle Of Rum”, but what’s most surprising about it is that it finds both artists moving out of their more obtuse musical approaches and writing a straightforward pop rock banger. ![]() If the stars ever have aligned… well then.” Initially I thought of her for another song but she specifically, although not knowing she had been the inspiration behind it in the first place, asked to be on this one. I had asked Liz Harris, the gem behind Grouper and who is an old friend, if she would sing on this new record of duets. Stewart goes on to say, “I had been trying to write a song on this bajo quinto to no avail and then drunkenly (A Bottle of Rum) listened to the Grouper song, “Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping.” A spark shone and feebly I tried to write something that, at least at first, sounded like it. One of them was we could never use this chord…. 'Rumpus Room' features vocals from Liars' Angus Andrew, with Xiu. When we started Xiu Xiu, founding member Cory McCulloch had a lot of rules for the band. Xiu Xiu has shared a new single and music video from their upcoming album, Oh No, which will be released on March 26 via Polyvinyl. One of them, annoyingly, is the open ‘cowboy’ voicing of D major. As it is a cheap one, only certain chords sound good on it. “About a year ago I bought a cheap bajo quinto, which is a 10 string low register guitar like instrument used in Tejano, conjunto and norteño musics. The first song to be shared from OH NO is “A Bottle Of Rum”, which features Liz Harris aka Grouper. It Bothers Me All the Time (Jonathan Meiburg / Shearwater) 12. A Classic Screw (Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo) 11. ![]() One Hundred Years (Chelsea Wolfe) The Cure cover 10. I Dream of Someone Else Entirely (Owen Pallett) 9. Angus Andrew of Liars, the latest single from the duets album OH NO, out March 26. Fuzz Gong Fight (Angela Seo / Xiu Xiu) 8. With Sharon Van Etten, Twin Shadow, Chelsea Wolfe, Owen Pallett, and Circuit Des Yeux as just a handful of examples, you should already be excited. rumpus rumpus room room, black black blue blue blue blueToday Xiu Xiu unveil a thumping new romp, 'Rumpus Room' ft. Xiu Xiu have been teasing some news for a while, and today they reveal it in full force: they have a new album called OH NO coming out on March 26 through Polyvinyl, and the list of collaborators is truly immense.
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