Xiu Xiumastermind Jamie Stewart takes Talkhouse on a track-by-track tour of the avant-rock outfit’s newly-released album, ‘Girl With Basket of Fruit’.
“Normally I try to avoid making public any overt explanations as to what any of our records or songs are about lyrically. Whenever asked—and although it is quite fair to pose a band this question—I will usually say that it is not my business to define these things for the listener. One’s own thoughts don’t need any of my inane disruptions. Obviously I have my own ideas about the lyrics, but the hope is that anyone who might check them out has their own experience: good or bad, expanded or null.
Occasionally I have just said “sure” and gone through it all point by point, but then I always felt jive and hypocritical for having done so. Talkhouse, being one of only three good music rags that there are and therefore sensitive, understand the fact that I am a prickly and pretentious D-bag snob. They proposed that instead of an implicit deciphering that I could, song by song, discuss the books and images that made the lyrics what they are. More how-did-you-get-here, less what-do-you-got-here.”
Jamie Stewart and Xiu Xiu perform their new album as a trio at Rewire 2019 on Sunday, 31 March. Stream ‘Girl With Basket of Fruit’ in full below and learn more about the performance at Xiu Xiu.
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