OH NO
Jamie Stewart duets with more than a dozen indie, punk, and experimental music colleagues, and what results is a surprisingly sweet meditation on friendship, with nary a try-hard shock to be found.
On the band’s 12th album, singer and songwriter Jamie Stewart sifts through the rubble of broken friendships.
Nearly everyone, musicians included, longed for connection in 2020, but not many incorporated it into their work as purposefully as Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo.
Xiu Xiu's 12th album, OH NO, sees them deliver a record of duets as they make a whole host of new friends following the demise of some long-standing friendships.
When you listen back through an artist’s back catalogue you normally pick out a running theme. Whilst I listen through the previous 11 releases of
Oh No, the slightly pompous, occasionally interesting new Xiu Xiu album, is a lot funnier than it intends to be
OH NO By Xiu Xiu album review by Adam Fink. The full-length comes out on March 26 via Polyvinyl Recording Co.