As noted in our recent roundup of forthcoming albums, Xiu Xiu have a new one on the way, the cheerfully titled Dear God, I Hate Myself. This is the band’s seventh studio album (as well as the first for new pianist/programmer Angela Seo, added after the departure of Caralee McElroy).
Never a man to hold back (from either a songwriting or promotional angle), frontman and Xiu Xiu mastermind Jamie Stewart has also provided plenty of aural/visual details in anticipation of the new album. Peep a tour poster below, along with a behind-the-scenes video of Jamie in the studio. Then, head over to the KRS site for a free MP3 of album opener, “Gray Death.”
Dear God, I Hate Myself is out February 23 on Kill Rock Stars.
Dear God:
01 Gray Death
02 Chocolate Makes You Happy
03 Apple For a Brain
04 House Sparrow
05 Hyunhye’s Theme
06 Dear God, I Hate Myself
07 Secret Motel
08 Falkland Rd.
09 The Fabrizio Palumbo Retaliation
10 Cumberland Gap
11 This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy)
12 Impossible Feeling
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