This will be a famous album. To hear it is to remember music's native purpose, a howl against the gloom.

Xiu Xiu has long been known among the music bloggers as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new 14-song album, each song so different from the next and so fully realized, their creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions.

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Xiu Xiu won "Avant Album of the Year" in the 2007 Plug Awards!

“sounding as brilliant and as maddening as ever, tortured and combative, and with a kind of confrontational intimacy that is inimitable”SALON

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Just When You Sense a Path, a Band Changes Its Course
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/14/arts/music/14xiu.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

“extremely imaginative” THE NEW YORK TIMES

“hauntingly entrancing” SPIN.com

“A dazzling showcase of an incredible group.” PLAN B

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