Last year Xiu Xiu put out an album of Nina Simone covers (inspired by a conversation frontman Jamie Stewart had with Michael Gira of Swans) shortly before announcing their new album Angel Guts: Red Classroom, named after a critically acclaimed Japanese “pink film” from the late ’70s (“pink films”...

Next month, the always-squirmy art-poppers Xiu Xiu will release their Nina Simone tribute album Nina, and we’ve posted their versions of “Don’t Smoke In Bed” and “Just Say I Love Him.” But Xiu Xiu won’t waste any time in getting back to cranking out original material. Early ne...

“Just Say I Love Him” is another cut from Xiu Xiu’s upcoming Nina Simone covers album. We’ve already heard his rendition of “Don’t Smoke In Bed” when we also learned that the project was inspired by Swans’ Michael Gira, who Xiu Xiu-architect Jamie Stewart has previou...

Not too long after they released 2012′s excellent Always, Xiu Xiu are back with another album, but this one is pretty different even by their standards. The record is entirely made up of Nina Simone covers, and was inspired by a conversation Xiu Xiu mastermind Jamie Stewart had with Michael Gira while they were touring [...]

Xiu Xiu’s video for “Born To Suffer” starts as a pixelated, gray-scaled pastiche before blossoming into something much more color-rich and evocative, featuring — amongst other things — some passionate kissing. Adriana Alba directs. Watch it below. Always is out now on Polyvinyl.