Xiu Xiu - La Forêt (Sunset Swirl vinyl) record sleeves These ironies are designed to

These ironies are designed to help cope with the species’ loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence

The album entered the UK charts at #2 in February of 2013 (their highest chart entry to date) and gave them their first #1 album in Australia

Björk's second solo outing following the break-up of the Sugarcubes

Unlike the last four albums

They returned to their farmhouse studio in Burton

Xiu Xiu - La Forêt (Sunset Swirl vinyl) record sleeves These ironies are designed toLP Sunset Swirl vinyl, Reissue 5RC (2024) US Repressed on vinyl for the first time in 15 years. As conceptual as Xiu Xiu's fusion of post punk, gamelan, synth pop, folk, and noise might seem, the group's music never feels overly cerebral or detached. On the contrary, it's usually brimming over with often contradictory emotions: love, hate, sex, violence, fear, and humor cling together so tightly in Jamie Stewart's songs that they can't be separated.