Xiu Xiu
The Air Force

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Review by Rachel Cawley

Jamie Stewart, central force of Xiu Xiu: no-one could accuse him of a half-hearted effort. The Air Force has much that we so often lament the lack of - intensity, awkwardness, lushness, no compromise - but these features are so weighty, music so laden with effort, histrionic emotion and multi-instrumentation, that songs nearly break at the backbone under such a load... »