Xiu Xiu

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About Xiu Xiu

The project of Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo, Xiu Xiu confronts difficult emotions with music ranging from harsh to tender. Using an intense mix of post-punk, synth pop, folk, Asian percussion music, experimental music, noise, modern composition, and more, the group explores the complexities of love, sex, death, and injustice. From the beginning, Xiu Xiu combined these sounds in striking ways, as on their brass and percussion-dominated 2002 debut album Knife Play. Starting with 2004's Fabulous Muscles, their pop elements became more prominent, but Xiu Xiu's viewpoint -- and Stewart's impassioned vocals -- remained uncompromising. Over the years, the band's music spanned the rousing synth pop of 2012's Always to the cathartic darkness of 2019's Girl with a Basket of Fruit. In the 2020s, the empowering collaborations of 2021's Oh No and the stark dualities of 2023's Ignore Grief reaffirmed that Xiu Xiu's emotional honesty was still as genuine as ever.

ORIGIN
San Jose, CA, United States
FORMED
2002
GENRE
Alternative

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