{"id":897,"date":"2026-07-10T17:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:43:14","slug":"xiu-xiu-channels-the-spectral-sounds-of-eraserhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Xiu Xiu channels the spectral sounds of \u201cEraserhead\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Listening to Xiu Xiu\u2019s \u201cEraserhead\u201d on a hot and stormy Friday afternoon is an atavistic summoning of the many gifts that David Lynch left us to remember him by.<\/p>\n

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Out July 10 via Polyvinyl (and pointedly absent from Spotify), the band\u2019s latest tribute to the music of Lynch\u2019s most famous work is a follow-up to their release of \u201cPlays the Music of Twin Peaks\u201d in 2016, which was composed under the blessing of Lynch himself.<\/p>\n

Over seven tracks, many of which are lengthy, so as to allow listeners to really sink into and meditate upon the clanks and cluds and hisses of the industrial gloom of the film itself, Xiu Xiu\u2019s \u201cEraserhead\u201d album ends with the heartbreak it builds towards from the start, with frontman Jamie Stewart putting his signature mournful vocals to best use for his rendition of Peter Ivers\u2019 \u201cIn Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n

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