Back on vinyl for the first time in fifteen years. Xiu Xiu's fusion of post-punk, gamelan, synth pop, folk and noise reads as conceptual on paper and never feels that way in practice: the music brims with contradictory feeling, love and hate and fear and humor knotted together so tightly in Jamie Stewart's songs that pulling them apart is not an option. La Foret ranks among the band's subtlest and its scariest, harsh and beautiful in the same breath. Pressed on jade eco-mix vinyl with lyrics.