Xiu Xiu "13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips" LP

Mint Green vinyl. 

Jacket and inner sleeve printed on holographic rainbow stock.

“I did not join a rock and roll band to play rock and roll!”

– Blixa Bargeld, on quitting The Bad Seeds

“My name is Blixa Bargeld. And I’m here for my COMPUTER!”

– Also Blixa Bargeld, when picking up said computer from a computer store in Berlin where Xiu Xiu now resides

There’s a dance, and on occasion a place to go dancing, where we while away the inevitable in the distinct hopes that we can better embrace what’s left of clocks that only run one way. You see, time is the issue and the issue is all about doing a dance that measures out life, and chance, and smooths the groove into something that can comfortably be swallowed.

Like 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips?

Precisely like 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips. Which, on the face of it is the newest record from Xiu Xiu, but only on the face of it. Underneath that face, the sinews and struggles of a need that seeks to name itself over every record, and every song on every record, ever written by Xiu Xiu of course, but also anyone who ever sought to make a record that’s worth a good goddamned. And this record is precisely that.