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Dear God, I Hate Myself
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Album Info
Label: Kill Rock Stars
Release Date: 23 February 2010
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Indie, Experimental, Alternative
Summary
Dear God, I Hate Myself is the art-rock band's first release featuring new band member Angela Seo (keys). The album also features contributions from producer/Deerhoof member Greg Saunier.
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Also On The Web: Last.fm Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Referencing everything from OMD’s Dazzle Ships (on the Speak-&-Spell-esque “Apple For A Brain”) to Tears For Fears’ The Hurting (on the digital-acoustic “Gray Death”), Stewart and Seo have twisted an admittedly dated retro-synth chic into something far more evocative and, yes, progressive.
Read Full Review >Paste Magazine
The seventh Xiu Xiu album may be the most playfully arranged and colorfully textured in the band’s catalog.
Read Full Review >Spin
But it's with his jarring mix of the banal and the brutal ("I will always be nicer to the cat / Than I will be to you") that Stewart shows his outrageous brilliance.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Dear God, I Hate Myself is also the band’s most overtly electronic album in some time, with several songs composed on a Nintendo DS that gives the darkness of “Apple for a Brain” and “Secret Motel” an unpretentious, somehow friendly feel.
Read Full Review >BBC Music
Dear God… is as engagingly weird as anything before, but flows so much better by incorporating the customary sonic terrorism into verse-chorus-verse songs, rather than breaking off for performance poetry about living in the shadow of suicide, or (say) war as legitimate barbarism for jocks.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
There's just enough pop influence to catch the audience's ear along the way - the refrains on Chocolate Makes You Happy, Dear God, I Hate Myself, and This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy) are as infectious as any mainstream pop song.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
Now seven full-lengths into their career, Xiu Xiu have hit a milestone with Dear God, I Hate Myself. Over 12 songs, they condense the best aspects of all their previous albums to craft what may prove to be their finest hour.
Read Full Review >The Phoenix
But the kicker, for both music and lyrics, is Xiu Xiu's version of a pep talk, "This Too Shall Pass Away," where Stewart shows that being the most tortured musician of all time makes his fleeting flecks of hope doubly heartfelt.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
New listeners will be immediately confronted with a couple of very catchy, horror-laced new wave anthems about fatal beatings and bulimia, and make that perennial first-Xiu-Xiu-experience decision: Do I buy this?
Read Full Review >Boston Globe
Deliriously drunk in its own eccentricities, “Dear God’’ is unlikely to win over new fans, and Stewart’s unhinged vocal acrobatics can get grating without former band member Caralee McElroy backing him up.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
Most of the remaining 11 songs on Dear God, I Hate Myself are built around sequencers and beats rather than guitars, and while they’ve by no means called off their flirtations with dramatic bursts of noise, they are only intermittent over the 38 minutes
Read Full Review >XLR8r
At the very least, Dear God, I Hate Myself marks a new level of maturity and self-awareness for the band.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
Dear God, I Hate Myself packs enough of a wallop that it is worth sitting through some dross to get at the choice bits, which, as is the case with any of the best work by Xiu Xiu, are uncomfortable, uncompromising, and easily hummable.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
Even if Xiu Xiu has sincere intentions, the album projects the impression that it’s willing to indulge in absurdity at the expense of the emotional heart of the songs.
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