Xiu Xiu - Girl with Basket of Fruit ALBUM REVIEW

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024

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  • @darkcuttoy
    @darkcuttoy 5 лет назад +2472

    This album is the musical equivalent of stumbling upon a snuff film on mom's computer

    • @nickabstract6774
      @nickabstract6774 5 лет назад +81

      Yo wtf my exact thoughts weird.

    • @saturatedneowax
      @saturatedneowax 5 лет назад +88

      "musically, this record was the equivalent to discovering an abandoned spaceship in a backyard to me"
      -Ground Control To Uncle Tom 3 years ago
      top comment from the exmilitary comment section

    • @lofy1263
      @lofy1263 4 года назад +4

      @@saturatedneowax I saw both of these comments today wtf.

    • @dwangnoderbora
      @dwangnoderbora 3 года назад +5

      That's Black Keyboard knocking around in your psyche

    • @CapricornReese26
      @CapricornReese26 3 года назад +4

      Sounds pretty accurate 😂😂

  • @rei9185
    @rei9185 5 лет назад +2297

    Xiu Xiu on that beat.

  • @obamachad7677
    @obamachad7677 5 лет назад +2096

    This album is honestly a bit too poppy and generic for me

    • @oldhead2854
      @oldhead2854 5 лет назад +240

      yeah especially when it sounds like everything on the radio.

    • @07cowboyfan
      @07cowboyfan 5 лет назад +304

      The justin bieber feature honestly killed it for me

    • @edwardchen9619
      @edwardchen9619 4 года назад +188

      @@07cowboyfan I prefer metal bands like taylor swift and ariana grande

    • @ejstavers587
      @ejstavers587 4 года назад +151

      @@edwardchen9619 nah im edgy i like rap, like imagine dragons

    • @randomavenger3048
      @randomavenger3048 4 года назад +79

      @@edwardchen9619 Charli XCX is my favorite Power Metal band.

  • @Cayde5
    @Cayde5 5 лет назад +2283

    This album is too mainstream for me

    • @EclecticoIconoclasta
      @EclecticoIconoclasta 5 лет назад +499

      Yeah dude. I am also into avantgarde experimental artists like ariana Grande

    • @oryzantol6292
      @oryzantol6292 5 лет назад +26

      I just listened to 3 songs and this has got to be the least mainstream album I’ve heard in a minute. You’d never see the average person going through the radio and stopping to listen to this lmao

    • @TheProcrastigamer
      @TheProcrastigamer 5 лет назад +186

      Oryzantol wooooshhh

    • @craftmasy
      @craftmasy 5 лет назад +4

      Yeah not odd at all

    • @ryanmorris6388
      @ryanmorris6388 5 лет назад +82

      >2019
      >Still having melodies and chords
      Lmao they're not even trying

  • @Graymasterful
    @Graymasterful 5 лет назад +2020

    *chaotic and noisey*
    *creepy/scary theme*
    *experimental*
    Melon nuts

  • @Graymasterful
    @Graymasterful 5 лет назад +710

    Girl with a basket of melon

  • @MattieCooper10000
    @MattieCooper10000 5 лет назад +301

    XIU XIU Gets a 9!!!!! I'm going to drive around with this album at 11 for all the good conservative neighbors. Thanks Melon!!!!

    • @Brandon-me2qr
      @Brandon-me2qr 5 лет назад +1

      MattieCooper wtf are your videos

    • @Lost_117
      @Lost_117 Год назад +4

      I blasted Mary turner mary turner through my small town at 3 am going 25 mph lol

    • @MattieCooper10000
      @MattieCooper10000 Год назад +2

      @@Lost_117 🤣😂🤣😂 That's the spirit!

  • @IveGotToast
    @IveGotToast 5 лет назад +807

    The thumbnail made it look like you were hitting your Juul

    • @ianfife7715
      @ianfife7715 5 лет назад +18

      IveGotToast I thought he was just keeping those pearly whites in tip top shape.

    • @eli5168
      @eli5168 5 лет назад

      LMAO

    • @yank_crime
      @yank_crime 5 лет назад

      Xiu Xiu in your mouth

    • @delmylopez6674
      @delmylopez6674 5 лет назад

      I thought he was brushing his teeth

  • @MrDannyWright
    @MrDannyWright 5 лет назад +574

    Jamie is at his best when he sounds like an angry ghost

  • @1UPVideos
    @1UPVideos 5 лет назад +381

    This new record from the Shoe Shoe Boys is very easy to approach, and makes for great casual listening :-)

  • @Aztrosist
    @Aztrosist 5 лет назад +749

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • @hm3051
      @hm3051 5 лет назад

      aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

    • @zenshadow26055
      @zenshadow26055 5 лет назад +46

      Ass resist likes Xiu Xiu?

    • @Aztrosist
      @Aztrosist 5 лет назад +65

      @@zenshadow26055 Xiu Xiu is fucking awesome. "FORGET" was one of my favorite albums of 2017.

    • @twincherries6698
      @twincherries6698 5 лет назад +2

      @@Aztrosist nice to see you're a fan

    • @zhezc3270
      @zhezc3270 5 лет назад +4

      woah didn't expect you here and liking Xiu Xiu

  • @apothicadark
    @apothicadark 5 лет назад +631

    Mary Turner Mary Turner might be the most terrifying song I've ever heard.

    • @LukeSnywalker523
      @LukeSnywalker523 5 лет назад +40

      Hard to beat Slug Bait by Throbbing Gristle for me but I was still thoroughly disturbed

    • @ffa1bc
      @ffa1bc 5 лет назад +148

      @@LukeSnywalker523 I'd say Mary Turner wins for me. Knowing it's based on something that happened 100 years ago really fucks me up. As a non american, it's something I didn't have much knowledge of, and it was sickening to investigate more about it.

    • @aryasuri9421
      @aryasuri9421 5 лет назад +17

      Guest House by Daughters?

    • @naumchomsky8840
      @naumchomsky8840 5 лет назад +55

      @@aryasuri9421 I actually think City Song is freakier, if only for the shrieking and atonal guitar stabs.

    • @GuysOfFilm
      @GuysOfFilm 5 лет назад +37

      @@naumchomsky8840 City Song and Guest House are both disturbing in the most opposite of ways

  • @superluigi2254
    @superluigi2254 5 лет назад +232

    Such a disturbing album. This might be their best, although Knife Play is probably tied. I love how they just change their sound every album while still remaining Xiu Xiu with the awkward vibrato and depressive and suicidal lyrics. This album was a lot more noise focused than that album which gives it a completely cutting-edge sound.

    • @danielbernas2293
      @danielbernas2293 5 лет назад +13

      Man Fabulous Muscles is a 10 tho

    • @Juan-wo7zu
      @Juan-wo7zu 6 месяцев назад

      A promise is up there too

  • @NatRealActual
    @NatRealActual 5 лет назад +858

    Wow I heard the album is good, but when you ripped off the yellow flannel for the red one to reveal itself only to shout “NOT GOOD” I almost had a heart attack

    • @MyoticTesseract
      @MyoticTesseract 5 лет назад +158

      I hope he actually does that sometime

    • @AWWYEAHHHHHH
      @AWWYEAHHHHHH 5 лет назад +47

      Myotic Tesseract I was waiting for him to do that the whole time during the Arian grande album review

    • @Triunity4
      @Triunity4 5 лет назад +1

      but he didnt do that, im confused.

  • @fannytoothnana6853
    @fannytoothnana6853 5 лет назад +173

    Damn a 9. I hope this inspires you to do a classic review of ‘A Promise’ next year. I love that album so much.

    • @riptide312
      @riptide312 5 лет назад +4

      fanny tooth nana if he reviewed xiu xiu for classics week i think he’d review fabulous muscles but you could definitely make a strong argument for a promise

    • @canorhan2903
      @canorhan2903 3 года назад +35

      @@riptide312 a promise is so much better than fabulous muscles imo

    • @riptide312
      @riptide312 3 года назад +3

      @@canorhan2903 i agree with you in restrospect. how do you rate fabulous muscles in xiu xiu’s discography?

    • @jacobsurface4230
      @jacobsurface4230 2 года назад +1

      Still waiting for the classic review 😭 either that, knife play or fabulous muscles would be dope. All amazing albums.

    • @SebbyIsYummy
      @SebbyIsYummy 2 года назад

      @@jacobsurface4230 yesss we need a classic review, their early work is so good Id love to hear his thoughts

  • @vongerlachter
    @vongerlachter 5 лет назад +106

    Mary Turner is one of the most impactful songs I've ever heard.

  • @alexm3083
    @alexm3083 5 лет назад +647

    we almost got another 10/10 melon

    • @MiguelAXFlo
      @MiguelAXFlo 5 лет назад +17

      Have you heard this album?

    • @yank_crime
      @yank_crime 5 лет назад +19

      I’m assuming so. It’s 11/10 material

    • @AFormerClarity1
      @AFormerClarity1 5 лет назад +15

      9 is really a 10 though.... let's be real

    • @yank_crime
      @yank_crime 5 лет назад +56

      >implying noise is bad and/or has no artistic merit

    • @AFormerClarity1
      @AFormerClarity1 5 лет назад +17

      @Alex Ushi so why you watching this review if you just want to shit on it?? go listen to Adam Levine sing some Maroon 5 bitch

  • @jasonbailey458
    @jasonbailey458 5 лет назад +153

    just listened to mary turner mary turner. yeah..

  • @spiderpigforlife1632
    @spiderpigforlife1632 5 лет назад +423

    This should be tagged as dark prog

    • @maelfoucault9216
      @maelfoucault9216 5 лет назад +10

      It's not a 10

    • @ducklordthegreat352
      @ducklordthegreat352 5 лет назад +4

      SpiderPigForLife real question tho wtf was he even referring to with that? TBK I guess? That’s the only major high score that I’d call prog at all.

    • @Videos5197
      @Videos5197 5 лет назад +1

      No

    • @maelfoucault9216
      @maelfoucault9216 5 лет назад +5

      @@ducklordthegreat352 I guess Swans, DG, Daughters

    • @uwnbaw
      @uwnbaw 5 лет назад

      Prog needs time signatures
      This album doesnt have it
      Death industrial is enough

  • @ggallintedtalk
    @ggallintedtalk 5 лет назад +1152

    Needle Drop Scores 2019 :
    10/10 : 0
    9/10 : 1
    8/10 : 3
    7/10 : 4
    6/10 : 7
    5/10 : 2
    4/10 : 2
    3/10 : 1
    2/10 : 0
    1/10 : 0
    NOT GOOD : 0
    69/10 : 1

  • @Liquid--Bacon
    @Liquid--Bacon 5 лет назад +529

    Dude, there's a guy that looks just like you that is also a RUclips music reviewer. And super racist.

  • @CoolMoon
    @CoolMoon 5 лет назад +683

    It's always nice for Melon to validate my music taste.

    • @yondeRqq
      @yondeRqq 5 лет назад +10

      if you were a teenager browsing /mu/ in 2012 maybe

    • @tekashi5962
      @tekashi5962 5 лет назад +1

      What’s your music taste?

    • @trevorhawley6896
      @trevorhawley6896 5 лет назад +5

      Someone’s insecure about their taste

    • @farhanmarco7827
      @farhanmarco7827 5 лет назад +2

      Who tf cares about music taste anymore?

  • @NomNomGohan
    @NomNomGohan 5 лет назад +106

    This album is honestly more sp00ky and insane than the Daughters album melon loved so much

    • @earlsweatpants2395
      @earlsweatpants2395 5 лет назад +54

      Just with Mary Turner alone makes it more terryifing and disturbing

    • @Vandalgia
      @Vandalgia 3 года назад +50

      Daughters honestly is banging.
      Mary Turner makes me extremely uncomfortable and disturbed.

    • @stxcxv
      @stxcxv 2 года назад

      i think daughters music is scarier than xiu xiu, even excluding the fact alexis marshall is a psychopath

    • @bng2946
      @bng2946 Год назад +1

      I'd say its more wild and unpredictable but in my opinion the way the daughters album was fleshed out thoroughly was more terrifying.

  • @seanrichardson2780
    @seanrichardson2780 5 лет назад +176

    Mary Turner Mary Turner might be the most twisted/horrifying/disgusting/brilliant songs I've ever heard

    • @jimmymeridian5174
      @jimmymeridian5174 3 года назад +40

      the way it portrays the brutal murder, it's so different from what you usually hear from songs about murder - it's not mournful or poetic or ghostly. It seriously feels like absolute scorching insanity - so much fear and terror and confusion, and then finally anger.
      It doesn't sound like he's describing a brutal event from the long ago past, it's like he describing it in the moment.

  • @LukeSnywalker523
    @LukeSnywalker523 5 лет назад +69

    I read the description of this album on Bandcamp and read about Mary Turner and I was incredibly disturbed...then I listened to the actual song and now I want to curl up in a corner and cry

  • @PFDadReacts
    @PFDadReacts 5 лет назад +61

    Xiuthony Xiutano - Girl With Baskets Of Melons

  • @Swishead
    @Swishead 5 лет назад +56

    I listened to this album walking back to my house on my own one night and it scared the shit out of me

  • @airplaneoverthesemen
    @airplaneoverthesemen 5 лет назад +87

    This album terrified me
    I love it

  • @mixmix862
    @mixmix862 5 лет назад +278

    This guy looks like Fantabongo

    • @Twocogsmontgumry
      @Twocogsmontgumry 5 лет назад +6

      Waiting for the Digibro DLC in Doki Doki Death Grips Simulator

    • @draevonmay7704
      @draevonmay7704 5 лет назад +1

      What are you talking about?
      Fantabongo is like Chuchesta

  • @joshuadoty4682
    @joshuadoty4682 5 лет назад +199

    Gotta love that .5 second saxophone solo at the beginning

    • @highqualityspice5964
      @highqualityspice5964 5 лет назад +10

      "saxophone"

    • @Dethmaster64
      @Dethmaster64 5 лет назад +13

      His .5 second long cover of the "BOOGIE" saxophone sample

    • @abhishektd8973
      @abhishektd8973 5 лет назад

      Why do I see a lot of accounts with exact same profile picture everywhere on this site?

    • @joshuadoty4682
      @joshuadoty4682 5 лет назад +1

      Abhishek Td look up “oh yeah yeah”

    • @djsickbeatz4005
      @djsickbeatz4005 5 лет назад +1

      Abhishek Td a fortnite streamer/you tuber told their fans to make it their picture.

  • @gutterbaby8382
    @gutterbaby8382 3 года назад +38

    10/10. Xiu Xiu are masters of making fucked up and tortured music while not being so abrasive that it becomes suffocating or day-ruining to listen to. Their more accessible pop-oriented material is excellent, too.

  • @Sasasala386
    @Sasasala386 5 лет назад +43

    Just listened to this album..felt like I was bein assassinated by a serial killer...it was tense

  • @jacobreveles7222
    @jacobreveles7222 5 лет назад +67

    Angel Guts: Red Classroom - 7/10
    Forget - 8/10
    Girl With Basket of Fruit - 9/10
    Next album's gonna be 10/10

  • @GroovyBearTV
    @GroovyBearTV 5 лет назад +138

    "Girl with a basket of melon" comments coming..

  • @bigbear9182
    @bigbear9182 5 лет назад +56

    I guess I’m not artistic enough to understand this album because I’ve spent the first three tracks in complete confusion

    • @dulin5531
      @dulin5531 5 лет назад

      lmao that’s the point that’s why “girl with basket of fruit” is a random title and on the next track “it comes out as a joke” signifies the ramblings of a mad man

    • @Zenene-ok5el
      @Zenene-ok5el 5 лет назад +42

      @@dulin5531 "Girl With Basket of Fruit" isn't a random title though, but a play on the title of one of Caravaggio's most famous paintings and a direct allusion to one of the main themes of the album: the difference in portrayal between male and female innocence and suffering. Not to say that there aren't more themes or that Xiu Xiu's lyrics aren't often surreal and seemingly arbitrary, but that doesn't mean there isn't authorial intent in those kind of details or that they're not supposed to be interpreted.

    • @GuysOfFilm
      @GuysOfFilm 4 года назад +2

      I mean what were you expecting? Anthony already described how freakish and chaotic and noisy the album is, that should've given you at least a little bit of expectation

  • @pringlesmegastack8575
    @pringlesmegastack8575 4 года назад +15

    this album legitimately scares me. i’m just listening to someone go insane

  • @kg3658
    @kg3658 5 лет назад +73

    i cant even call this music to be honest.. it felt like i was listening to events taking place in a movie.. like Scisssssssssors for example...batshit insane.. pretty awesome. but wow wtf.
    Ice cream truck sounds like the downward spirals of a mans psyche.

    • @hldr4345
      @hldr4345 5 лет назад +7

      I mean, it kind of always is with xiu xiu, it's always very very dark, dense, almost non-musical (except for FORGET, And their mid-era stuff)

  • @ROFLOLGAMER
    @ROFLOLGAMER 5 лет назад +25

    Glad to see a good review for the Twin Peaks the Return audio book.

  • @maxrockbin
    @maxrockbin 5 лет назад +9

    Here's a trick for listening to ANY difficult or less accessible music for the first time: Pretend you're in a car (or better - listen in your car). Imagine the music is the sound of the engine. Pinging, popping, screeching, banging. As long as the music has some rhythm, you'll get a whole different idea of what's going on in a track. Some things that seem like chaotic noise can seem just propulsive or sometimes even just kinda boingy and quaint.

    • @R-H-B
      @R-H-B Год назад +1

      That’s fucking genius

  • @dudeup1
    @dudeup1 5 лет назад +391

    Xiu xiu is just feminist death grips

  • @fish5215
    @fish5215 5 лет назад +13

    Favorite album of the year. Brought me some of the most difficult yet rewarding music I’ve ever heard. Mary Turner has become one of my favorite songs. Such a hard-hitting and terrifying experience.

  • @ethangrubb8318
    @ethangrubb8318 5 лет назад +55

    IDLES wants to know your location

    • @Forestgravy90
      @Forestgravy90 5 лет назад +3

      G/than Works idles wrote catchy Choonz but the lyrics and that singer irl makes me cringe

    • @Forestgravy90
      @Forestgravy90 5 лет назад +1

      𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷 there’s no subtlety, no poetry, no nuance and no sense of metaphor or allegorical subject. It’s just caveman speak “Masculinity is bad and you should cry!” “Muh Danny Nedelko is an immigrant he’s nice his name is spelt..” etc. And the way the guy speaks, he’s like a walking huffington post. It’s not bad music, I love the crunch of the guitars and the bluntness of them but I can’t get past that guy

    • @jbkjbk1999
      @jbkjbk1999 5 лет назад +5

      @@Forestgravy90 the bluntness is part of the band's aesthetic. it's not a lack of understanding metaphor or allegory, it's an explicit aesthetic rejection of those things.
      the lyrics are crunchy and unsubtle and confrontational just like the instrumentals and the singing is crunchy and unsubtle and confrontational.

    • @Forestgravy90
      @Forestgravy90 5 лет назад

      there's forthrightness and aggression and bluntness and then there's a lack of creativity and relaying of basic messages from echo-chambered silly junkie groups. Seen the guy interviewed and he came across very poorly to me@@jbkjbk1999

    • @jbkjbk1999
      @jbkjbk1999 5 лет назад +3

      @@Forestgravy90 have ye considered you just dont agree with what he's saying and it actually has naught to do with the songs

  • @nicholasmiller3725
    @nicholasmiller3725 4 года назад +11

    What you said about someone who has never reflected on our country's history of racism and hatred being thoroughly unnerved and disturbed after hearing "Mary Turner Mary Turner" could not have been more accurate. I honestly do not know how to feel anymore after hearing that and learning the history behind it.

  • @PolicemanPlanet
    @PolicemanPlanet 5 лет назад +25

    This album really deserved the yellow tbh

  • @nealforreal
    @nealforreal 5 лет назад +36

    This sounds like the album where I finally put the effort into getting into Xiu Xiu!

  • @TY_2020
    @TY_2020 5 лет назад +9

    Xiu Xiu dropping 3 incredible projects that are completely different from one another back to back has gotta be a special thing. This one in particular twisted my insides.

  • @brookeschell4634
    @brookeschell4634 Год назад +19

    This album is the musical equivalent of when you are peaking on a 10 strip of acid and you finally force yourself get up and walk to the bathroom to go pee

    • @R-H-B
      @R-H-B Год назад +5

      That sounds pretty fun tbh. I loved this album and I’ve never done acid soooo

  • @ilikespacedinosaurs
    @ilikespacedinosaurs 5 лет назад +9

    0:54 idk what you're talking about, percussion has always been a big focus in xiu xiu's music, they've always had interesting percussion, and their first album was noted by a lot of critics for its gamelan percussion.

    • @hldr4345
      @hldr4345 5 лет назад +1

      I think he's talking 'bout the last 3 records (forget, unclouded sky and angel guts)

  • @colleenryan2703
    @colleenryan2703 5 лет назад +157

    U gave it a 10 bc you are Jamie Stewart's boy-toy.

    • @christophermccracken4296
      @christophermccracken4296 5 лет назад +32

      Colleen Ryan i don’t blame him, jamie stewart can assert his dominance over me any day of the week

    • @nikolademitri731
      @nikolademitri731 5 лет назад +5

      the greatest boy I’d let Jamie use me like a hand puppet in a church production of The Passion play, or like the crusty gym sock I kept under my bed in high school... WOOF! 🤤😆

    • @18FrozenAngels
      @18FrozenAngels 5 лет назад

      He gave it a 9 because Jamie finished too quickly last time.

  • @greatgaddafisghost6388
    @greatgaddafisghost6388 5 лет назад +60

    Post modern socialist propaganda never sounded so good

    • @mrlevinielsen
      @mrlevinielsen 4 года назад +3

      Duke Vilhern pol joesif hwatson?

  • @Auroron
    @Auroron 5 лет назад +8

    4:08
    "Its an alt-right cut"
    i knew it, your alt-right is showing!

  • @evanfar845
    @evanfar845 4 года назад +22

    I have never heard this album, but I was immediately intrigued by seeing ritual ambient and death industrial under the same album

    • @ant6k
      @ant6k 2 года назад +1

      yo nice profile pic

    • @R-H-B
      @R-H-B 2 года назад

      Art pop and death industrial is what really intrigued me

  • @GooGuGajoob
    @GooGuGajoob 5 лет назад +4

    This is the second time I've googled lynch victims and the 2nd time I've cried about it.

  • @elijahlonmoriones2493
    @elijahlonmoriones2493 5 лет назад +91

    It looks like a melon juuling in the thumbnail

  • @herschaft
    @herschaft 5 лет назад +4

    I really appreciated that little Kenny G-esque motif with the party horn at the beginning.

  • @owen1686
    @owen1686 5 лет назад +94

    Wow only a 6?! Honestly thought you'd enjoy this a lot more but I guess you can be pretty unpredictable at times, Anthony.

    • @birdissmall2677
      @birdissmall2677 5 лет назад +11

      You must be from Australia (xd im sooooo funnyy amiright)

    • @ziusudra970
      @ziusudra970 5 лет назад

      Are you a death grape?

    • @kenyatta3840
      @kenyatta3840 5 лет назад

      Turn that 9 upside down it's a 6 now

  • @warped1589
    @warped1589 5 лет назад +7

    I guess I won't ننسى this album anytime soon huheuehue

  • @josephancion2190
    @josephancion2190 4 года назад +15

    Amargi ve Moo is easily the second best song on there, too.

  • @Eugene4251
    @Eugene4251 5 лет назад +159

    Wow never thought I’d see a yellow flannel for a 0/10
    edit: this shit isn’t funny stop liking these comments

    • @ididgt4259
      @ididgt4259 5 лет назад +6

      THIS IS THE WORST VACATION EVER

  • @acidtacos455
    @acidtacos455 4 года назад +6

    the whole album sounds like a bad shrooms trip

  • @jvictor3048
    @jvictor3048 5 лет назад +10

    Those genre tags have me very intrigued. Will check this out.

  • @DJsuperNOVA15
    @DJsuperNOVA15 5 лет назад +8

    that meat locker analogy tho wow

  • @wesleygarcia8363
    @wesleygarcia8363 Год назад +6

    This album literally killed my soul

  • @ChristofEightyEight
    @ChristofEightyEight 11 месяцев назад +2

    Just heard this album for the first time and tuned in to hear Anthony's thougts on "Mary Turner Mary Turner" and he didn't disappoint. This album's up there with Lingua Ignota and Nine Inch Nails as the most harrowing I've ever heard, and honestly this one's scarier than 99 percent of horror movies I've ever seen. What a landmark achievement.

  • @tuomas2638
    @tuomas2638 5 лет назад +5

    Pumpkin attack is an avant-garde banger for sure.

  • @figls2345
    @figls2345 5 лет назад +4

    The first timeI heard this I knew it would come. It would come and save me from my misery the blandness of not knowing what true weird shit exists out there and without the manic sounds of stings shooting from the top of the door. Yeah it was a pretty good album.

  • @matt00794
    @matt00794 5 лет назад +2

    It's fun to see your reviews of xiu xiu. they are really a hit or miss band for you, which i like, other bands you only seem to be in a set range of scores but xiu xiu is very sporadic for you it seems.

  • @jaydeh.
    @jaydeh. 5 лет назад +27

    Girl with basket of fruit is for normal people.

  • @biggerlion4960
    @biggerlion4960 4 года назад +6

    Girl With Basket Of Fruit is a 10/10 album for me and almost beat out Schlagenheim for me. Then I listened to Come In.

    • @Roncstelep_
      @Roncstelep_ 4 года назад

      Same 10/10 album for sure.

  • @owenpattaylor
    @owenpattaylor 3 года назад +6

    i return to fantano's xiu xiu reviews occaisionally just to remember how "xiu xiu" is pronounced

    • @allyson--
      @allyson-- 2 года назад

      same here

    • @indep_
      @indep_ 10 месяцев назад +1

      shoe shoe

  • @grim1683
    @grim1683 2 года назад +3

    I love this album and I think you did a great review on it. Glad you liked it. Great job Fantano

  • @daft8090
    @daft8090 5 лет назад +26

    stop ignoring their first albums lmao. they're the best

    • @ByeByeDeadName
      @ByeByeDeadName Год назад +2

      What do you want him to do? Build a Time Machine so he can go back and review them?

  • @niershere
    @niershere 3 года назад +3

    Mary Turner Mary Turner is really profoundly depressing and haunting

  • @eaccc_
    @eaccc_ Год назад +3

    i felt sick and unsafe listening to this

  • @TheAndrewj96
    @TheAndrewj96 5 лет назад +2

    Honestly, I would love to give this a listen, but I tried to listen to one of their albums a while back, and I only got four tracks in before I had to shut it off. It fucked me up so bad that I got physically sick. So yeah, I'm gonna pass on this one.

  • @apeheadboink
    @apeheadboink Год назад +3

    new xiu xiu album march 3rd 2023 woo!!

  • @halframen
    @halframen 5 лет назад +8

    YOOOO this year we're gonna have 4 10/10's yes I came from the future wooooo

    • @josephancion2190
      @josephancion2190 4 года назад +1

      No, but we do have 10 9/10s as of December.

    • @maddies_he4rt
      @maddies_he4rt 4 года назад +1

      HalfRamen this comment aged poorly

  • @Fadesluvsyou
    @Fadesluvsyou 5 лет назад +12

    Okay, this was unexpected

  • @griffinfiles8160
    @griffinfiles8160 5 лет назад +2

    MARY TURNER MARY TURNER is both one of the most distressing song's I've ever heard and also one of my favorite songs of the year

  • @Kianleahy
    @Kianleahy 3 года назад +2

    I thought Anthony was doing a whippet in the thumbnail

  • @mike15447
    @mike15447 5 лет назад +5

    I have tried this album. I just can't get into it at all, I'll try their earlier albums.

    • @willem-dafemme
      @willem-dafemme 5 лет назад +3

      Albums such as forget, always and fabulous muscles are much more digestable. I'd recommend starting with one of those!

  • @Gabrielcezar94
    @Gabrielcezar94 5 лет назад +3

    Pitchfork will deeply regret in the near future for failing to recognise the greatness of Xiu Xiu

  • @sbands1
    @sbands1 5 лет назад +2

    Worth...the...wait. This might be the best review I've seen yet

  • @justaguywithhisgrasseson5522
    @justaguywithhisgrasseson5522 9 месяцев назад +3

    Me looking at bro as he plays this album in front of the hoes : 🤨

  • @BiPhBiPhBiPhBiPh
    @BiPhBiPhBiPhBiPh 5 лет назад +39

    Stan Angela Seo, queen of Kpop.

  • @jukmifggugghposer
    @jukmifggugghposer 5 лет назад +3

    Wow, Melon giving a dark, experimental, abrasive and in-your-face album a high score? I never woulda guessed!

  • @biggiescoops046
    @biggiescoops046 6 месяцев назад +1

    Most terrifying album I have ever listened to
    9/10

  • @noctaroh5121
    @noctaroh5121 5 лет назад +1

    Ive been commenting on every review sonce this album dropped so I could hear you love it as much as i did. I forgot to mention this but its fucking amazing how Eugene Robinson, who sounded like a damn madman all over the last Oxbow release is on this thing, so perfect.

  • @femaleserialkiller
    @femaleserialkiller 3 года назад +3

    mary turner mary turner makes my skin crawl but i like it in a morbid way

  • @phothewin6019
    @phothewin6019 5 лет назад +15

    Who else is HYPE for a new Fruits Basket anime adaptation?

    • @eartianwerewolf
      @eartianwerewolf 5 лет назад

      That series is so many levels of fucked up. Too much family trauma ahg.

  • @marikoth
    @marikoth 5 лет назад +4

    You had me at death industrial

  • @elijahmaier5975
    @elijahmaier5975 5 лет назад +1

    This is definitely one of Xiu Xiu’s best releases in awhile. Though I haven’t heard much of their under the table releases like the Drugs series, this album stands out among their ‘main’/ commercial albums.

  • @anthonymoran6989
    @anthonymoran6989 5 лет назад +3

    Great review Melon! I don’t think any record this year can top this record in terms of being a nauseating and twisted experience. Especially on Mary Turner with its final lines, “ Fuck your guns,” “fuck your war,” “fuck your truck,” “ fuck your flag”. Just a brilliant fucked up experience.

  • @featherycoffee1401
    @featherycoffee1401 2 года назад +7

    I should like this album in theory, harrowing loud noisey industrial music that tackles fucked up things in a cryptic way and will leave you emotionally scarred? Consider me on board.
    Yet... It just doesn't click, it just sounds like a Clown babbling over incoherent noise and I unironically listen to Merzbow to calm myself down. And the singer sounds deranged but in a bad way, I get that's the point but it works against the album imo, it just make me laugh, then annoyed at the vocals and lyrics too.

  • @buckham14
    @buckham14 9 месяцев назад

    I havent been able to stop listening to Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy since i first heard it. Been listening to it like 3 times a day for a month now. After being a Fabulous Muscles listener for years, im stoked to get deeper into Xiu Xiu

  • @CucumbersSC
    @CucumbersSC 5 лет назад +1

    Fuck yeah!! I hadn't heard Xiu-Xiu before but damn, after you mentioned them a few times on the other channel and after this vid I had to listen. Instant love! And hell yeeeeah their tour stops in Stockholm!

  • @funch7
    @funch7 4 года назад +2

    This album is scary.

  • @SamIsNotACritic
    @SamIsNotACritic 5 лет назад +3

    Phew, thought you lost yourself after the Thank U, Next review

  • @fcochandia
    @fcochandia 5 лет назад +1

    MAN THAT INTRO IS SO SAMPLE(able), im gonna do a track with that. TOOO TO

  • @alwindsor7299
    @alwindsor7299 5 лет назад +3

    This album reminded me of a palatable ‘Bish Bosch’

    • @chaimatchaluvv333
      @chaimatchaluvv333 5 лет назад +2

      Al Windsor agreed. The really absurd lyrics one line after another and the storytelling like structure of the songs especially remind me of Bish Bosch.

    • @josephancion2190
      @josephancion2190 4 года назад +1

      P A L A T A B L E