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- Artist(s): Jamie Stewart
- Summary: This is the eighth album for the experimental pop band led by Jamie Stewart.
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- Record Label: Polyvinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock
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Top Track
Hi | |
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If you are wasting your life, say hi If you are alone tonight, say hi If you wish he should die, say hi, hi-hi, hi-hi If you have a hole in your... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 23
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Mixed: 3 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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Feb 27, 2012Always may well be the Californians' finest yet.
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Feb 22, 2012What Xiu Xiu demonstrate throughout Always, is the way in which they can lay down so starkly how terrible life can be and how fucked up one can feel and create something amazing, angry, political, fierce and defiant out of all of it.
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Feb 22, 2012This is an album that need proffer no apologies for its dramatic, overwhelming and salutary take on darkness and light.
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Mar 12, 2012The most noticeable thing about the new Xiu Xiu album is ... how disarmingly vibrant it sounds.
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MagnetApr 12, 2012A mix of ping-ponging bangers ("Hi," "Born To Suffer"), touching, presumed-true stories ("Joey's Song," "The Oldness") and two skip-now shockers dedicated to monstrous worthlessness ("I Luv Abortion," "Black Drum Machine") [No.86, p.60]
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Mar 14, 2012The record functions as a well-executed sampler of the magnified pain and horror we've come to expect from this band.
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Mar 5, 2012These are stories we've already heard told better, and in the same voices.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Mar 6, 2012
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Mar 31, 2012
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