Νέο Single & Album
Από τους Xiu Xiu
Άκου το A Bottle of Rum
Οι Xiu Xiu ανακοίνωσαν ότι επιστρέφουν με νέο άλμπουμ, το "Oh No", το οποίο θα είναι γεμάτο ντουέτα από: Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe, George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow, Owen Pallett, Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater and Loma, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, Angus Andrew of Liars και άλλους!
Το "Oh No" κυκλοφορεί στις 26/3 (via Polyvinyl)
Τα καλά νέα δεν τελειώνουν εδώ, όμως. Ταυτόχρονα με την ανακοίνωση για τον νέο δίσκο, η μπάντα κυκλοφόρησε και το πρώτο single, το "A Bottle of Rum" feat. Liz Harris.
Σε σχετικό δελτίο τύπου η μπάντα δήλωσε για το νέο κομμάτι:
“About a year ago I bought a cheap bajo quinto, which is a 10 string low register guitar like instrument used in Tejano, conjunto and norteño musics. As it is a cheap one, only certain chords sound good on it. One of them, annoyingly, is the open ‘cowboy’ voicing of D major. When we started Xiu Xiu, founding member Cory McCulloch had a lot of rules for the band. One of them was we could never use this chord. It has become a creative game in the last few years to try and break some of these rules but in a way that respects that Cory had very good reasons for imposing them in the first place. I.e. in this voicing, D major is an insipid chord…. I had been trying to write a song on this bajo quinto to no avail and then drunkenly (A Bottle of Rum) listened to Liz's song, ‘Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping.’ A spark shone and feebly I tried to write something that, at least at first, sounded like it. I had asked Liz Harris, who is an old friend, if she would sing on this new record of duets. Initially I thought of her for another song but she specifically, although not knowing she had been the inspiration behind it in the first place, asked to be on this one. If the stars ever have aligned... well then.”
Απολαύστε το νέο κομμάτι, το οποίο συνοδεύεται από ένα πολύ όμορφο, το οποίο σκηνοθέτησε η Angela Seo.
Lyrics:
Run away, get away, Roberta
Disobey? Obey?
Curare, curare
To claim… what?
Unashamed of pain, a bottle of rum
In the ways of a dream
Meaningless to believe
In a rage as a habit
Oh that is were a dream
It was nice, when you were nice, Roberta
Tonite and today, San Josie, San Jose
Rebuff… whom?
Ricochet the pain, a bottle of rum
