Xiu Xiu

Vs. Grouper
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Slender Means Society

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AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Through a particularly masterful slight of hand, the beloved rabble-rousers in XIU XIU have somehow convinced most of the world that theirs is a vision chiefly of bombast--overdriven drum patches, caterwaul, and open-wristed scare tactics. The truth of the matter, of course, is that bombast is really only half of the story. And what makes Xiu Xiu so special isn't JAMIE STEWART’s sonic sadism so much as his subtlety--an obsessive attention to every detail buried in his band's overwhelming squall. For the fifth artist commissioned for Slender Means Society and States Rights Records' tandem Pregnancy Series, Stewart enlisted masterful manipulators of ethereal noise GROUPER (Portland's LIZ HARRIS) in a collaboration exploring both artists' subtle sides. The resulting EP is an ambient exploration into the power of silence and restraint. Sharing a childhood trauma at the hands of a certain popular horror film from the 1970s, Xiu v. Gru took this as a mutual launchpad to delve into the darker corners of quiet. The results are breathtaking.