Xiu Xiu

Ches Smith: Laugh Ash

by Vic Albani
January 29, 2024

Dopo lo straordinario lavoro dedicato al Vud�� haitiano del 2021 (Path of Seven Colors) anch'esso uscito per la straordinaria Pyroclastic Records di Kris Davis, il batterista, percussionista e compositore Ches Smith, acclamato dal New York Times come “uno dei batteristi pi�� dinamici della scena sperimentale del pianeta," colpisce ancora con un nuovo sorprendente lavoro immensamente variegato, ...

Nina

By Xiu Xiu

Label: Graveface Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Don��t Smoke In Bed; Don��t Explain; Wild Is The Wind; Where Can I Go; See Line Woman; Just Say I Love Him; Four Woman; Pirate Jenny; You��d be So Nice; The Other Woman; Flo Me La.

Xiu Xiu: Nina

by Mark Corroto
December 25, 2013

Like a horrendous and gruesome accident you pass on the expressway, listening to the Jamie Stewart's covers of Nina Simone's music is both repulsive and abhorrent, but ultimately impossible to escape. Seems you just have to listen. Stewart and his avant-garde group Xiu Xiu probably have never had their discs filed in ...