Meesje

A.G. Cook at his utmost tightest, with some really great deconstructed pop experiments and PC Music main-staple production.

Doc at the Radar Station really feels like it's a re-exploration of everything that makes Trout Mask Replica (1969) work so well. Van Vleet's wonderfully rough and absurdist lyrics and delivery are on the forefront as per always, but this record's instrumentation is something else entirely. Ever evolving repetitive motifs, interchanged with pure chaos. It never really sits still.

Though it is more of a statement piece than it is an album, I do really appreciate it as an extreme lowercase noise and conceptual album. Music made from the absence of the creator, on par with John Cage's 4'33.

I didn't know Xiu Xiu had it in them, but they finally released an album I didn't really like. The general production and mix are not on par with most of their other stuff, and I can't help but ache for a higher production value and more experimentalism to the covers. I do appreciate what they're trying to do though, and I find it an interesting effort. I can also imagine that this was such a hassle to get green-lit by all the original artists.