Streaming forth a ceaseless sprawl of releases, side projects, art offerings and extensive international touring since 2002, Xiu Xiu’s music has veered from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock, squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between, ever served with a bruising honesty and intensity that has ripped out the hearts of a legion of obsessive listeners.
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Xiu Xiu is the conduit for the uncompromising and unnervingly personal musical works of currently Berlin-based multi-instrumentalists Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo.
New album Ignore Grief is a record of halves, and the band's most viscerallly uncompromising set in a while. The real songs attempt to turn the worst life has offered to five people the band is connected with into some kind of desperate shape that does something, anything, other than grind and brutalize their hearts and memory within these stunningly horrendous experiences. The imaginary songs are an expansion and abstract exploration of the early rock and roll “Teen Tragedy” genre as jumping off point to decontaminate the band’s own overwhelming emotions in knowing and living with what has happened to these five people.
Old friend and new member David Kendrick (Sparks, Devo, Gleaming Spires) joins Angela and Jamie through whatever this may be, whatever it may mean and why ever it may have occurred.