Xiu Xiu
Taking their name from the 1998 Chinese film {#Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl}, post-punk throwbacks Xiu Xiu were formed in San Jose, CA, by Cory McCullough, Yvonne Chen (publisher of the indie zine Zum), Lauren Andrews, and Jamie Stewart. Before forming Xiu Xiu, McCullough and Stewart played in the band Ten in the Swear Jar. Prior to the 2002 release of their first full-length album, Knife Play (released on vinyl through Absolutely Kosher and on disc through 5RC/Kill Rock Stars), the band made appearances on numerous compilations. Shortl...[more]
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Knife Play and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. The debut album from these on-the-down, ultra-sad pop gloomers comprised of LAUREN ANDREWS, YVONNE CHEN (Zum Audio/Media), CORY McCULLOCH (IBOPA, TEN IN THE SWEAR JAR), and JAIMIE STEWART. Ten simple and forlorn tracks played with bells, synths, piano, gongs, harmonium, guitar, electronics, bass, and vocals. Includes guest performan [ read more ]
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of The Air Force and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. A feverish and disturbing set of songs, but it's also some of the group's most accessible. His songs play out like bedroom symphonies, bedroom confessions over chimes and gonging bells and industrial beats and buttery guitar leads that slide through the songs like a straight razor opening up skin. Elaborate, ornate, and bubbling [ read more ]
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Women as Lovers and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Xiu Xiu has long been known as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new album, each song is so different from the next and so fully realized, the group's creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human [ read more ]
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VINYL FORMAT. This five-song EP is the second self-contained effort from these remarkable folks from San Jose, following the release of their album "Knife Play" (which Pitchfork named as one of the top albums for the first half of 2002). This EP contains five new songs including the sparse and intense "I Am Center of Your World," the viciously potent "Jennifer Lopez," and a raw cover of the Joy Division/New Order classic "Ceremony."
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of La Foret and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. To hear Xiu Xiu play is to be shaken, disturbed, and shown something original. This is the kind of thing that makes even the most confessional-driven emo sound fake and vague, the type of record that leaves you seasick.
LP $13.99
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of A Promise and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Whereas current indie-rock darlings Interpol have taken all the favorite parts from your favorite new wave bands and fashioned them into refreshing new pop songs, San Francisco's Xiu Xiu have salvaged all of the ignored dark fragments of your favorite new wave songs and turned them into some refreshingly disconcerting new anti-pop so [ read more ]
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