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| | Baltimore City Paper: MUSIC For Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, the Personal is Political is Permissible for Creative License (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Over the course of three full-lengths and an EP since the band's 2000 formation, Stewart and his ever-shifting gaggle of collaborators have created some of the most unsettling, challenging, polarizing, absorbing, and wholly original music you'll find anywhere in the indie-rock universe. |
 | | And over the fray, Stewart's voice alternates between an impassioned whisper, a twitchy, major-malfunction wail, and a theatrically falsettoed croon--very often it conjures the unglued emotionality of Ian Curtis (yet not in that by-the-numbers Interpol way) or the mischievous drama of the Cure's Robert Smith. |
 | | Stewart stands proudly behind his convictions, but let's hope for safety's sake that there aren't too many members of the military in attendance during Xiu Xiu's current tour. |
| www.citypaper.com /music/story.asp?id=5327 (1031 words) |
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