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- Summary: The latest full-length release from California experimental trio Xiu Xiu was mixed by John Congleton.
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- Record Label: Polyvinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 4, 2024The relative polish on 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips doesn’t conceal its edge.
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Oct 8, 2024Mixed by John Congleton and produced by Seo, 13” manages to lean closer to pop than any other album of their (at least since 2017’s Forget) while easily maintaining the band’s archetypal weirdness, love for experimentation and, above all else, pure viscerality.
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Oct 2, 2024File this one alongside Fabulous Muscles, Angel Guts: Red Classroom and Forget as one of Xiu Xiu’s most gratifying albums.
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Oct 2, 2024A shining, distorted, expertly constructed, open-ended record, that might be Xiu Xiu’s best.
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The WireOct 22, 2024Xiu Xiu’s music compels you to empathise even if you cannot fully relate to it. The poignant, pulsing curves of “Piña, Coconut & Cherry” bring this perspective into focus: “You must love me, love me, love me, you are mine, this is mine”. [Oct 2024, p.60]
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Oct 2, 2024The songs reverberate stronger than those on the group’s more recent albums. Yet at the same time, Stiletto isn’t as epic as Girl with Basket of Fruit or Ignore Grief, and it’s not as varied as Fabulous Muscles. It feels at times like an experiment to imagine a different Xiu Xiu; one that find themselves on the top of year end lists, that are played in rock clubs, that reside in New York and wear shades. In this gesture, they’ve become more approachable, but also more distant.
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Oct 2, 2024It’s intense stuff, but Xiu Xiu are uncompromising artists who have an equal appreciation for the beauty in life and all of its dark, ugly corners.