21 January 2026
Band: XIU XIU
Who: Seasoned Californian
art noise duo based in Berlin.
They aren’t the lazy kind of artists. In their 22-year-old career, they have
canned/released 14 LPs, with last year’s oddly titled, but very compelling
album, 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
as the most recent one.
And here’s another one.
New album: XIU MUTHA FUCKIN’ XIU Vol. 1.
A 12-track covers LP.
Tracklist
1. “Psycho Killer” – Talking Heads
2. “Warm Leatherette” – The Normal
3. “I Put a Spell on You” – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. “Hamburger Lady” – Throbbing Gristle
5. “In Dreams” – Roy Orbison
6. “Sex Dwarf” – Soft Cell
7. “Dancing on My Own” – Robyn
8. “SPQR” – This Heat
9. “Lick or Sum” – GloRilla
10. “Some Things Last a Long Time”– Daniel Johnston
11. “Triple Sun” – Coil
12. “Cherry Bomb”– The Runaways
Press info: For XX covers aren’t about improvement, but reverence, aiming with each
song to be a small honorific offering to artists that have inspired them. Covers come from a broad range of inspirational touchpoints for the band that while far reaching, each feel
a fit from a band with such a varied sound, from the likes of Throbbing Gristle to GlloRilla, Robyn, Talking Heads and even Roy Orbison among others.
TUTV: To be honest, I thought XX would butcher the songs that they picked to cover. Overall, the melodies of the originals are treated with respect, but they embed them in their own characteristic noise textures of reverberating distortion and industrial rumpus. From Roy Orbison to Talking Heads. Mutha fuckin’.