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Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu

Carla Bozulich's Evangelista / Prurient / Common Eider, King Eider

Thu 8/28
Tickets

18+

Doors 7pm

$15 adv / $17 day of

Xiu Xiu

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  • Xiu Xiu has long been known among the music bloggers as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new 14-song album, Women As Lovers, each song so different from the next and so fully realized, their creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. With a heart too sensitive to accept humanity's darker side yet also unable to flinch from it, Xiu Xiu is a way of "owning your own shadow." Jamie Stewart has a novelist's eye for juicy details, and a poet's ability to wring impossible emotions out of the English language, finding black humor where there is usually horror, finding horror where there is usually apathy. And Stewart's history-spanning visions of birth and death have never come across more clearly. The performances, led by Stewart's one-of-a-kind voice, are intense, virtuosic and painted in a spectrum of acoustic and electronic colors that one would be hard pressed to find equaled on any album. Many of the songs feature what is now officially the live line-up of the group, with Stewart and Caralee McElroy joined by Ches Smith on drums and Devin Hoff on bass.

Prurient

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  • Dominick Fernow is the man behind Prurient and Hospital Productions. Prurient is one of the countries leading noise projects. From his early work of harsh cut up wall of noise and self-flagellating live shows to his recent developments of dark tinged synth movements seen on the breakthrough Pleasure Ground album on Load Records, Prurient retains the intimacy of a striking body of personal work through a slowly evolving consistency of releases. Fernow's label Hospital Productions, with a retail store in the East Village, has released seminal works from a wide spectrum of the underground's best including Wolf Eyes, Kevin Drumm and Burning Star Core.
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