Xiu Xiu will be cited as one of the important and influential bands of this decade, and La Foret will be an example of that brilliance. Another great album  Full text...

La Foret has the sort of courage-minus-contrivance that is exceedingly (and ironically) rare in music of its dramatic and thematic ilk  Full text...

Wonderful addition to the Xiu Xiu discography  Full text...

Xiu Xiu exposes true emotions, sores and all, in its music and La Foret is no exception  Full text...

Xiu Xiu fans will hear similarities with previous records, but ultimately be seduced by this latest release  Full text...

La Fortet is a triumph of art over logic, of dark over light, and of love-wounded recrimination over joyful absolution  Full text...

Easy listening this amn’t, but if you want a rollercoaster ride into deep recessions and to be thrilled by the sounds that surround you, then this could be the perfect album for you  Full text...

It's sitting and staring in your dark space, trilling fingers in the wound and rows of hissing pistons for walls  Full text...

While some music carries on a heritage, Stewart's seems like a purely generative, spontaneous expression of a unique sensibility, and what's especially remarkable is how a record that seems so brash on the surface reveals its subtlety by increments  Full text...

This isn't a band looking to be loved so much as it desires a swift kick in the teeth  Full text...

So, yeah, not the best party music  Full text...

Stewart is a master at keeping audiences on the edges of their seats: they're either leaning closer to drink it all in, or they're preparing to bolt  Full text...

The album relies less on hooks and more on a sparse energy, but the listening is engaging enough to keep the listener around to the end, focusing more on cohesion rather than theatrics  Full text...

Despite any shortcomings, Xiu Xiu certainly isn’t out to imitate any particular sound or influence on La Foret, opting instead for a creative approach that is uniquely their own. That is something I absolutely respect.  Full text...

And beware, they come armed with a varied arsenal of sounds, employing synths, programming, vibraphones and all manner of wind and string instruments, like the Magnetic Fields' weirdo little sister  Full text...

Well I'm going to be the one to say it: This emperor is butt naked  Full text...