{"id":297990,"date":"2025-12-04T04:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:49:06","slug":"xiu-xiu-announce-new-covers-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297990\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiu Xiu Announce New Covers Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-thequietus-snippet excerpt\">The band take on Talking Heads, Daniel Johnston, GloRilla, Robyn and more on Xiu Mutha Fuckin&#8217; Xiu: Vol. 1<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/XiuXiu_HZ-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Xiu Xiu have announced a new covers album, Xiu Mutha Fuckin\u2019 Xiu: Vol. 1, to be released on 16 January via Polyvinyl.<\/p>\n<p>The record sees the longstanding experimental outfit interpreting the likes of Talking Heads, Robyn, Throbbing Gristle, Soft Cell and more.<\/p>\n<p>Said the band\u2019s Jamie Stewart:\u00a0\u201cWe have a long history of doing covers and have done 3 albums of covers. The enduring and basic throughline with all of them is an attempt to say thank you to those songs. They are all in one way or another pieces of music that have moved us and exploring them in a deep way is a small honorific offering to the muse that created them. We never approach them thinking \u2018How can we improve these\u2019 but really \u201cWhat can we learn from these?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band have shared two tastes of the record today, a version of The Runaways\u2019 \u2018Cherry Bomb\u2019, and Daniel Johnston\u2019s \u2018Some Things Last A Long Time\u2019. You can hear both below.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart said of the covers: \u201cUnexpectedly I (forgive this melodramatic admission) cried while singing the Daniel Johnston song. If there ever were a sincere and wounded voice in the world it is his.\u201d\u00a0On Joan Jett, they added:\u00a0\u201cI love Joan Jett and I love being bad and this song is all about both.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Xiu Mutha Fuckin\u2019 Xiu Vol. 1 is released on 16 January via Polyvinyl and can be pre-ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydzdjld-l-y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The tracklist is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Psycho Killer\u2019 [Talking Heads]<br \/>\u2018Warm Leatherette\u2019 [The Normal \/ Grace Jones]<br \/>\u2018I Put a Spell on You\u2019 [Screamin\u2019 Jay Hawkins]<br \/>\u2018Hamburger Lady\u2019 [Throbbing Gristle]<br \/>\u2018In Dreams\u2019 [Roy Orbison]<br \/>\u2018Sex Dwarf\u2019 [Soft Cell]<br \/>\u2018Dancing On My Own\u2019 [Robyn]<br \/>\u2018SPQR\u2019 [This Heat]<br \/>\u2018Lick Or Sum\u2019 [GloRilla]<br \/>\u2018Some Things Last A Long Time\u2019 [Daniel Johnston]<br \/>\u2018Triple Sun\u2019 [Coil]<br \/>\u2018Cherry Bomb\u2019 [The Runaways]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band take on Talking Heads, Daniel Johnston, GloRilla, Robyn and more on Xiu Mutha Fuckin&#8217; Xiu: Vol.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-297990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}