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Album Review: Xiu Xiu’s OH NO! is a return to form, and a celebration of everything that has made them great.

To me, Xiu Xiu has always been a project marked by its ambition; whether it’s finding new ways to express the spirit of musical heavyweights like Nina Simone or Angelo…

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See: Xiu Xiu return with a video for new single ‘A bottle of rum’, featuring Liz Harris

Out via Polyvinyl on March 26th is the new album Xiu Xiu, ‘Oh No’, a collection of duets. From it, the band have released a new video for lead single…

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ALBUM REVIEW: of Montreal – UR FUN

In ‘San Junipero‘, the exquisite (and greatest, in my view) Black Mirror episode about love, life and death, the main characters, Yorkie and Kelly, walk through a world peppered with…

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Album Review: Of Montreal – Innocence Reaches

Kevin Barnes has played many roles in his nearly 20 year music career. There was the folksy pop guy, the jilted lover, the struggling husband and father, the party monster,…

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