“Xiu Xiu continue an incredible second act with the communal OH NO”
“The majority of OH NO's duets strike a chord.”
“Jamie Stewart duets with more than a dozen indie, punk, and experimental music colleagues, and what results is a surprisingly sweet meditation on friendship, with nary a try-hard shock to be found.”
“On the band’s 12th album, singer and songwriter Jamie Stewart sifts through the rubble of broken friendships”
“Not to say that Xiu Xiu are predictable, but after two decades and now a dozen albums, it would’ve been a surprise if Jamie Stewart’s latest wasn’t a histrionic fit of confrontational noise, tremulous chanson and industrial goth textures featuring songs about loss, sex and death. What’s supposedly new and different with Xiu Xiu’s twelfth such outing, though, is that it comes billed as 15 “duets” b”
