Unclouded Sky

Unclouded Sky is an interesting little side album for Xiu Xiu, featuring Jamie covering a bunch of old folk/country songs accompanied by field recordings of mostly birdsongs. The songs and melodies are pretty good, and Jamie's husky vibrato gives everything a very intimate feeling. The field recording sections that blend everything together are nice, but sometimes a bit too long like with (Kanuku) and Just As I Am. Definitely not one of my favorite records of theirs, but a decent one that ... read more

There's a really good EP hidden in here.

This is another collection of folk tracks that Xiu Xiu has released, and it's been a little while since they have done this kind of sound in their discography. I think the last one was maybe all the way back in La forêt which was almost 10 years go from this record being put out. Now, if you read my review of La forêt, I said that I wanted an album like that without the more abrasive elements, as that would probably end up being my favorite ... read more

13/25 Listening to every Xiu Xiu album because Jamie Stewart Telepathically gave me estrogen and wished me a good evening and told me what colour to paint my nails.

[XIU XIU DISCOG RUN 11]

while this albums concept and backstory is really cool, the music itself is just really nothing interesting

i can appreciate it for being so wildly different from the rest of their discography, but this is literally just a collection of very barebones, empty folk tracks with some bird noises in the back.

overall just a very empty album, another one i probably wont be coming back to often