Over two decades and 17 full-length LPs, Xiu Xiu’s prolific and influential output has been consistently mesmerizing. Today, they share details for the newest addition to the collection, 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips - out September 27. 

This album is some of Angela Seo, David Kendrick, and Jamie Stewart's most compelling music together. Mixed by John Congleton (Chelsea Wolfe, Swans, Lana Del Rey), it's unlike anything the band has ever recorded and was motivated by the destruction of previous aesthetic notions following the band's recent move from Los Angeles to Berlin.

The news comes paired with the enthralling lead single, “Common Loon,” which Jamie describes as “a boogie embrace for queer perverts across the multiverse,” and its NSFW video (nudity, sexual acts, corndogs, etc) shot, directed, edited and starring performance artist Alicia McDaid as a slew of real and imagined characters including: Mcdazzler, Britney Spears, The Angelologist, Smurfette, Garfield, Pepe, Anna Nicole Smith Joker, Led Zeppelin groupie, Galactica Darkstar, Jason Voorhees,  Frida Kardashian, Viagra, Goth Monica Geller, Chemtrails, Ghöstmilf, She Hulk, Carmela Soprano, Cathy, Bret Michaels, Andy Warhol and Odie. Watch/listen to the censored version below or check out the uncensored version on Vimeo.

Pre-order your copy of 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips on limited edition Malachite Mix vinyl and shop the full merch spread, complete with booty shorts and a Xiu Xiu holographic pocket knife.

Plus, catch Xiu Xiu touring across North America & EU/UK this fall - all dates on sale this Friday, June 28 by 10am local time.

“The song ‘Common Loon,’ for us, is about reveling in perversity, cuckooness, queerness and/or the unquenchable personal requirement to wild out. As MASSIVE fans of Alicia McDazzler's work, we could think of no one else more qualified to embody those ways of being and no one else who would crank them up further than we would have ever imagined. She is an inspiration and icon to all LOONS!" - Jamie Stewart

"I used footage of myself as @mcdazzler and lots of different characters from the past 10 years to compose what I hope feels like an end of pop culture freak life flashing before your third eye journey to the corndog underworld which emerges into the collective funnel cake in the sky that exists within everything and nothing where all beings are truly free to headbang as Garfield and Odie simultaneously." - Alicia McDaid

Xiu Xiu - ‘13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips’ Album Art

13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips Tracklist

1. Arp Omni
2. Maestro One Chord
3. Common Loon
4. Pale Flower
5. Veneficium
6. Sleep Blvd.
7. T.D.F.T.W.
8. Bobby Bland
9. Piña, Coconut & Cherry