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While tracks like 'Skincare' and 'A Letter From Purest Hell' draw power from a deep and impactful sense of loss

Chris Knox suffered a debilitating stroke in 2009 just as they had started work on a new album

Tear in Your Hand

he immediately pestered her to play music with him

Colson Whitehead

Xiu Xiu - La Foret (Vinyl) boxingday25 While tracks like 'Skincare' andXiu Xiu's La Foret is repressed on vinyl for the first time in 15 years! As conceptual as Xiu Xiu's fusion of post punk, gamelan, synth pop, folk, and noise might seem, the group's music never feels overly cerebral or detached. On the contrary, it's usually brimming over with often contradictory emotions: love, hate, sex, violence, fear, and humor cling together so tightly in Jamie Stewart's songs that they can't be separated. Harsh and beautiful