Xiu Xiu – Plays the Music of Twin Peaks

Biblical Violence

Biblical Violence (Demo)

From Knife Play, the debut studio album of Xiu Xiu. Uploading because it isn't avaliable anywhere on SoundCloud as far as I can find. If Jamie and Angela upload it on their own I'll immediately remove this. Also, if you have the funds, please purchase it directly on their Bandcamp. xiuxiu.bandcamp.com/album/knife-play

Xiu Xiu – Poe Poe

Xiu Xiu – Suha

The Silence That Binds the Lost is a saga carved in breath, not stone. It begins with elders who carried grief in silence—never speaking, only carving memory into ritual. The warband forgot. The child hummed. Ash sang in sleep. A horn broke the sky.

Across twenty tracks, silence becomes flame. Names buried in shame are unearthed. The warband hears again. The elders rise in fire. And the tribe, once fractured, becomes one breath.

This is not an album. It’s a funeral chant. A sacred lament. A mythic inheritance. It binds the lost not with sound, but with silence that burns.

And this is not the final chapter. There are more breaths to carve. More silence to bind. More flame to rise.

You will not leave this unchanged. You will carry it. You will hum it. You will become it.

The Flame That Would Not Die

Australia’s Gallery of Modern Art commissioned Xiu Xiu to reinterpret the music from Twin Peaks for their David Lynch: Between Two Worlds exhibition. Since then, the band has performed select concerts all over the globe culminating in a proper studio album of the compositions - "Plays The Music of Twin Peaks." 

-Available Record Store Day 2016 on 180-gram 2xLP red/blue vinyl (limited to 2,000).
-Mixed by Deerhoof's Greg Saunier.
-Produced by Jherek Bischoff (Amanda Palmer, Ariel Pink).

Sycamore Tree

Xiu Xiu

Related tracks