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XIU XIU - Remixed & Covered
| PitchFork | | Music's impetus is much more complicated within a commercial framework than a traditional folk one, but one of its original functions-- to convey a heritage across time-- remains intact. The best evidence for this is how consistently the emergence of new tools for manipulating sound has been accompanied by a rush to standardize their use. John Cage noted that as soon as the theremin was invented, people started trying to replicate chamber music with it. A minority of guitarists explore the instrument's range of possibility; more crowd into the narrow province of rock. ...full text |
| | TinyMixTapes | | It’s hard not to be wary of these sorts of releases, especially ones this sprawling. Smells like product. Xiu Xiu, however, have been so steady since their early-2000 inception that perhaps they deserve a stand-back-and-take-stock kind of release. And, as it turns out, the reinterpretations on display here are anything but obligatory (though the same can’t be said for the remixes). Rather than just a stop-gap, keep-the-ball-rolling hodge-podge, these 18 tracks can serve as a potent reminder of what an indelible songwriting talent Jamie Stewart is....full text |
| | Popmatters | | When you get an album of covers and remixes of songs by a band notorious for putting out some of the most impenetrable music in recent memory, it’s one of those instances where the potential for a complete musical trainwreck is extremely high, but there’s always the faint hope that at least a couple of the artists involved will take a unique approach and knock the sucker out of the park. Two such compilations have come out in the last couple months; For the Sick, a mammoth tribute to the demented, legendary New Orleans sludge legends Eyehategod, and Remixed & Covered, a collection of, you guessed it, remixes and covers of some of indie rock standout Xiu Xiu’s best-known material....full text |
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