Women as Lovers

Xiu Xiu | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• ASIN: B000ZOSMYM
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,392 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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It's a beautiful thing when a band goes out on a limb to make its most personal and strangest work. But when that work is also greatly accessible (and we mustn't forget that the two aren't incompatible), when you'd bet even money that this is also going to make them big stars, that's cause for celebration. Jamie Stewart has been making fragile and super-intense music for years. He's gained a strong cult following based on his provocative lyrics, frayed rhythms, and beyond-emo vocalizings. There's nothing precious about Women as Lovers, which is named after a work by the Austrian feminist author Elfriede Jelinek. Righteous and necessary political statements ("Gauntanamo Canto") edge into party songs (a brilliant cover of the Freddie Mercury/David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure," with guest vocals from Michael Gira) in a way that gives both more weight. You might say that this is Xiu Xiu's Dub Housing, or that it sounds like the Arcade Fire scoring a David Lynch film. Either way, it's amazing. --Mike McGonigal

Product Description

Xiu Xiu has long been known as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new album, each song is so different from the next and so fully realized, the group's creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great Xiu Xiu album January 30, 2008

By sdoyon

Format:Audio CD

A very good follow-up to The Air Force. The expanded lineup works heavily in the band's favor. Xiu Xiu's early albums suffered a little by relying too heavily on MIDI sequencers. Women as Lovers has a much richer sound. "I do what I want, when I want" is a wonderful single, but I love "No friend oh!" and "You are pregnant you, you are dead".

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Still great, but not the greatest from Xiu Xiu. February 9, 2008

By T. Parks

Format:Audio CD

For those who fell in love with Jamie's older songs such as "I Broke Up" and "Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl," you're quite aware of the "weird noises" in Xiu Xiu's music. "Women As Lovers" changes pace following the album "The Air Force" with adding MORE of the noises and obscurity. Despite the fact that I personally think of "The Air Force" to be more amicable than this album, I am like any other Xiu Xiu follower with the fact that I can certainly find it in me to love this album just as I have all the rest, particularly songs such as "F.T.W." and "I Do What I Want When I Want." There is definitely a classic style of Xiu Xiu that any Xiu Xiu fan will appreciate and love.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Their Best September 24, 2010

By andrzes bartosik

Format:Audio CD

Not terrible either, but just not inspiring. Yes there are some songs you'll want to listen to for a while, but it doesn't have the staying power of their previous albums.