2004 - 'Fleshettes' CD-single 2006 - 'Boy Soprano' / 'San Pedro Glue Stick' picture disc 7' 2007 - Jamie Stewart Pre-Xiu Xiu Picture disc 7'This is the first Xiu Xiu album where every song spotlights Jamie Stewart and a collaborator. 2002 Chapel of the Chimes 2006 Tu Mi Piaci Singles. 2008 Xiu Xiu for Life: The First 5 Years (Japanese best-of compilation) 2014 There Is No Right, There Is No Wrong (best-of compilation) EPs.
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Albums include A Promise, Girl With Basket of Fruit, and Fabulous Muscles.Stewart notes in the album’s bio that, while writing OH NO, a series of his working relationships and long-standing friendships were “abruptly and unilaterally severed after surprising acts of betrayal and disrespect”. Genres: Experimental Rock, Art Pop, Post-Industrial. Switching between the straightforward and the abstract - releasing entire Nina Simone cover albums, Twin Peaks tributes and murder ballads - their style is almost indefinable, but driven by two guiding principles: weirdness, and beauty.Xiu Xiu discography and songs: Music profile for Xiu Xiu, formed 2002. Don’t rock up alone, and opt instead to invite a cast of collaborators in for a selection of modest duets.Xiu Xiu are now two decades into a bizarre and idiosyncratic career creators of one of the most unique catalogues of any modern artist. The irony of it all is that, while exploring their new soundscape, Jamie Stewart and co. While their previous work teems with lyrical provocation and queer euphoria, OH NO finds them stepping outside of their (dis)comfort zone in favour of an emotional overhaul: it may be their most radical decision of all.
Much of OH NO oscillates between this overwhelming intensity and a playful scuzziness that makes up the latter half of the album. Take ‘I Cannot Resist’’s funeral march-style drum rolls and industrial chain whips: Stewart’s starring role in this melodrama is complimented by producer Angela Seo’s skilled direction and guest vocals from Drab Majesty.Embodying the emotional qualities of their musical forefathers, Stewart’s reimagining of The Cure’s ‘One Hundred Years’ with Chelsea Wolfe is pulsing and dystopian: its industrial edge renders the famously dreary track even murkier. After that, nothing can prepare you for the seething bleakness that appears again and again in OH NO , even by Xiu Xiu’s standards.
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With its clattering samples and nonsensical lyrics, the album’s rambunctious gift couldn’t be more appreciated.The glistening atmospherics and wailing strings of ‘Saint Dymphna’ feel like a sonic touchstone for Stewart’s healing. ‘Rumpus Room’, featuring Angus Andrew of Liars, is a House of Pain-style detour from the album’s ethereal agony, and makes for a masterful blend of both Stewart and Andrew’s surreal approaches to sound. Sharon Van Etten’s tentative musings cascade in the opening track ‘Sad Mezcalita’, weaving with Stewart’s haunting whispered dialogue. Whether this is a good sonic decision or not is up for listeners to decide, but it serves as a reminder of the alienation and festering isolation Stewart once experienced, and his attempts to break free from it.Despite its heavy-footedness, OH NO ’s moments of excellence glimmer through.
OH NO ’s moments of anguish and vulnerability are matched with these moments of light, and serve as a solemn reminder that even if we’re alone, we’re alone together.
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