Ignore Grief - Xiu Xiu: Review
Xiu Xiu is the long-running experimental music project fronted by Jamie Stewart. The band has long had a devout following in the critical underground, which was strengthened off the back of a run of acclaimed projects from 2016-2019. After releasing an album centered around collaborative efforts in 2021, the band is back with their 13th album, Ignore Grief . Review by Lav: In the years since I first gave a glowing review to Xiu Xiu's 2019 album Girl With Basket Of Fruit I've grown even fonder of one of the scariest albums I've ever heard and one of my favorite experimental releases of the entire 2010s. After OH NO , which felt like more of a themed project that saw Xiu Xiu collaborating with dozens of talented musicians but losing some of the conceptuality and uniquely haunting poise of their best work, I was excited for this to be a proper follow-up to Girl . What Ignore Grief actually does is less about demanding comparisons to its predecessors and more about challengin...