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- Summary: The first record for the San Francisco-based band since Devin Hoff joined as their bass player.
- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Experimental
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 18
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Mixed: 6 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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With Women as Lovers they have created one of their more accessible and cohesive albums to date.
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Rather than using art as a cloak, Stewart constructs an exoskeleton out of precious wordplay and florid arrangements--armor that makes him as clumsy as it does strong.
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Women as Lovers capitalizes on it as yet another bold and consistently satisfying release in Xiu Xiu’s discography.
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Women As Lovers is a beautiful masturbation, and a little death for us all.
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It's Xiu Xiu's strength--as well as their weakness--to assault the listener with specificity, giving Women... a deeply voyeuristic sheen that can detract from the often thrilling musical invention at work here.
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Jamie Stewart, as usual, sounds like a man on the edge of checking into a white-walled care facility, but that shouldn’t be seen as a negative against Women As Lovers.
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Their sixth album is also as pretentious as you would expect a record named after a novel by Austrian feminist author Elfriede Jelinek to be.
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Positive: 0 out of 1
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Mixed: 1 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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josephd.Feb 1, 2008
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