Judge a Book Not By its Gender
Illustration by Carolyn Wells
Lisa Whittington-Hill | Longreads | May, 2021 | 29 minutes (7,916 words)
I blame Drew Barrymore for two things: the amount of money I have spent on celebrity memoirs and an unfortunate attempt to dye my hair platinum blonde in 1993, inspired by Drew’s locks in a
Seventeen magazine Guess Jeans ad.
Little Girl Lost, Barrymore’s 1990 account of growing up as a child star in Hollywood, was my first celebrity autobiography. It ignited my love of celebrity memoirs, especially those by women. My dog-eared copy has survived numerous book purges and cross-country moves. I am not alone in my appreciation for it. The coming-of-age tale was a
Xiu Xiu bounces from gratuitous harshness to grief-filled duets
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Hannah Pezzack
, April 7th, 2021 09:03
As Xiu Xiu release latest album Oh No, Jamie Stewart guides us through his 13 toppermost records – including three compilations! I only want the best ice cream, he tells Hannah Pezzack
There is birdsong in the background of Jamie Stewart’s call. We’re back to front timewise: I’m in Amsterdam, where it’s late on a Monday evening, and he’s in Los Angeles, where the day has just begun. “Excuse me,” he says, dipping out from the chat. “I just need to go and see about a cat…” He returns moments later, explaining that a stray feline had broken its way into the kitchen. Or, at least, that’s what I think he says. The audio crackles in and out, percolated by his West Coast drawl and rapid-fire curse words. Then, suddenly, I can hear him crystal clear.
Polyvinyl · March 26, 2021
There is some music you cannot enter into lightly. It takes a cautionary warning, maybe a few deep breaths, before diving in. Then the music splatters all over you, screams in your face, and shakes you. This is Xiu Xiu. The duo, composed of Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo, have had a long history with the experimental realm. Their sound is stuffed with quaking synths and vocalist Jamie Stewart oscillating from a quivering whimper to an anguished bellow. Usually going at it alone on these musical exploits, the pair took a different path for their 12th album.
OH NO introduces their first duet album: each track pairs Xiu Xiu with a different musician, making for a star-studded indie cast. The collaborators include Alice Bag of ‘70s punk band the Bags, Chelsea Wolfe, and Drab Majesty. The journey even resulted in a seeming erosion of Stewart’s misanthropy: “The guest stars…helped remind me that the ratio of beautiful humans to shitty humans is more lik
Reviews / / 07 · 04 · 2021
When you listen back through an artistâs back catalogue you normally pick out a running theme. Whilst I listen through the previous 11 releases of Jamie Stewartâs
Xiu Xiu project, less of a band more of a revolving door for the gifted and outcast, the thing that stood out was the beauty of the music. Even if the times were hard. Yes, it was peppered were brutalist motifs but there is always a beauty to it. Sometimes itâs that of a fuzzy memory of childhood crush, or a broken beauty, like Jackie Kennedy during JFKâs funeral, but there it is a beauty to the music.
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