This is awful and I refuse to be polite. Who said noise pop wasn’t pretentious, because guess what? It is. Xiu Xiu’s second album is “A Promise” which ultimately fails to deliver. A whispery, angsty male voice with electronic screeching and small technoesque thumping sounds, computerised clapping noises and tape samples make the whole thing a little too forced and a little too thin.
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