Happy release day to XIU XIU! Their amazing new album, Angel Guts: Red Classroom, is officially out today and available everywhere. The limited edition clear red vinyl is already sold out in our E-store, but we still have regular clear vinyl available + CDs, cassette, and digital. You can also grab the album on iTunes / Amazon MP3 / Spotify / Rdio / Bandcamp.

We're not the only ones who think Angel Guts is one of Xiu Xiu's best albums yet. David Hartley (Nightlands, The War on Drugs) wrote an amazing review on The Talkhouse which describes the album perfectly.

"Clearly this isn't The Sounds of Silence, but it's not Metal Machine Music either. The album wants to be listened to; the songs are short and the hooks are there, albeit unconventionally. It also sounds really good. The panning is aggressive; it has a super-widescreen stereo image, making it an interesting headphone listen. I also love the low end, even if I can't tell exactly where it's coming from. It's a fairly heavily compressed record, but necessarily so — had Xiu Xiu leader Stewart and producer John Congleton opted for a lo-fi, distant approach, the record would have washed over me unnoticed. It's also compositionally dynamic and Stewart uses space like someone with a dozen or so records under his belt; you never get the impression that synths or guitars were ever blindly overdubbed out of habit."