Xiu Xiu - The Air Force

A feverish and disturbing set of songs, but it's also some of the group's most accessible. His songs play out like bedroom symphonies, bedroom confessions over chimes and gonging bells and industrial beats and buttery guitar leads that slide through the songs like a straight razor opening up skin. Elaborate, ornate and bubbling over with noise, but wit a sense of less-is-more; minimalism over excess.