Most intimate effort
silverway30 | Columbia, SC | 12/16/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Just as the reviewer stated above, this is Xiu Xiu's most intimate album to date. For those who are not fans, a comment as such is not easy to justify because of the stark imagery and intense magntitude (via electrifying and sometimes shocking sounds and painfully explicit lyrics) most of their songs carry. Like emotional baggage sprawled all over an entangled web of human deception, so is Stewart's delivery of issues most of us would intensely fear or choose not to confront; and if we did, it would be with a therapist. I doubt any of us would be successful in painting misunderstood masterpieces that would echo the excessive and lucid hegira's Stewart's various personae take in his songs, because whether it's "Suha" or "Bog People," the characters comes alive not only through the entrancing lyrics, but through the brutal and honest delivery of Stewart's vocals."