Xiu Xiu—the experimental art-pop group of Jamie Stewart, Angela Seo, and David Kendrick—have announced their a new album. The full-length is titled 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips, and it’s out September 27 via Polyvinyl. Lead single “Common Loon” comes with a NSFW video directed by and starring Alicia McDaid as Britney Spears, Smurfette, Garfield, and over a dozen other characters on Vimeo. A slightly censored version of the video is available to watch on YouTube below, too.
“The song ‘Common Loon,’ for us, is about reveling in perversity, cuckooness, queerness and/or the unquenchable personal requirement to wild out,” Stewart said of the new song. “As MASSIVE fans of Alicia McDazzler’s work, we could think of no one else more qualified to embody those ways of being and no one else who would crank them up further than we would have ever imagined. She is an inspiration and icon to all LOONS!”
Mixed by John Congleton, 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips takes inspiration from the band’s recent move from Los Angeles to Berlin, as well as “the destruction of previous aesthetic notions.” It follows Xiu Xiu’s 2023 album, Ignore Grief.
Xiu Xiu are going on a North American and European tour later this year, too. Beginning on September 20, the band will perform in the Seattle, San Diego, Austin, New York, Toronto, and other major cities before flying over to the Netherlands in November for the European leg. See Xiu Xiu’s complete list of tour dates below.
13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips:
01 Arp Omni
02 Maestro One Chord
03 Common Loon
04 Pale Flower
05 Veneficium
06 Sleep Blvd.
07 T.D.F.T.W.
08 Bobby Bland
09 Piña, Coconut & Cherry
Xiu Xiu:
09-20 Reno, NV – The Holland Project
09-21 Boise, ID – Shrine Social Club
09-22 Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
09-23 Portland, OR – Holocene
09-24 Arcata, CA – The Miniplex
09-26 San Diego, CA – The Loft at UCSD
09-27 Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge
09-28 Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole
09-30 Austin, TX – The Parish
10-02 Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios
10-03 New Orleans, LA – Siberia
10-05 Orlando, FL – Conduit
10-06 Miami, FL – Gramps
10-07 Tampa, FL – Crowbar
10-08 Savannah, GA – Graveface Lodge of Sorrows
10-09 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
10-10 Durham, NC – TBA
10-11 Washington, D.C. – Black Cat
10-13 Baltimore, MD – Metro
10-14 Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
10-15 New York, NY – LPR
10-16 Providence, RI – AS220
10-17 Portland, ME – Space Gallery
10-18 Montreal, Quebec – Theatre Fairmont
10-19 Toronto, Ontario – Velvet Underground
10-20 Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
10-21 Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village
10-22 Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
10-23 Des Moines, IA – xBk Live
10-24 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
10-26 Fort Collins, CO – The Coast
10-27 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
10-29 San Francisco, CA – Gray Area
10-30 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
11-08 Groningen, Netherlands – Vera
11-09 Den Bosch, Netherlands – FAQ Festival
11-10 Rotterdam, Netherlands – De Doelen
11-11 Brussels, Belgium – La Botanique
11-13 Bristol, England – Strange Brew
11-14 Brighton, England – Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
11-15 Stockport, England – St Mary’s
11-16 Glasgow, Scotland – Room 2 at Cottiers
11-17 Oxford, England – The Bullingdon
11-19 London, England – Heaven #
11-20 Cardiff, Wales – Clwb Ifor Bach #
11-22 Brest, France – Festival Invisible #
11-23 Paris, France – Le Hasard Ludique #
11-25 Grenoble, France – Le Ciel #
11-27 Nuremberg, Germany – Kantine #
11-28 Prague, Czech Republic – Meet Factory #
11-29 Berlin, Germany – Lido #
11-30 Poznań, Poland – Próżność #
05-17 Seattle WA – Moore Theatre
05-18 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
# with Evicshen
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