Xiu Xiu will Ignore Grief on new album this March

Hear the first single, “Maybae Baeby” now.

Experimental boundary pushers Xiu Xiu have announced their upcoming new album, Ignore Grief, set for release on March 3 via Polyvinyl.

David Kendrick (Sparks, Dev0) joins Xiu Xiu’s existing members Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo on the album which is “a record of halves” according to a press release. The band say that “half of the songs are experimental industrial. Half of the songs are experimental modern classical”.

The first single “Maybae Baeby” has dropped alongside an unsettling video directed by Seo. Watch it below.

“In ‘Maybae Baeby,’ the singer’s viewpoint is of a young person hiding in a fantastical conversation with a tarantula in order to escape a physically abusive parent,” says Stewart. “We were hiding within this fantasy of a fantasy, following the model of the late 1950s sub genre of ‘Teen Tragedy Songs,’ to try and find a way to come to terms with a number of staggeringly horrendous events that occurred to people close to the band over the last 2 years.”

You can pre-order Ignore Grief on vinyl now.

1. The Real Chaos Cha Cha Cha

2. 666 Photos of Nothing

3. Esquerita, Little Richard

4. Maybae Baeby

5. Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier

6. Pahrump

7. Border Factory

8. Dracula Parrot, Moon Moth

9. Brothel Creeper

10. For M