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Xiu Xiu review – shuddering homage to Twin Peaks | Musique Non Stop

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Friday, October 9, 2015

Xiu Xiu review – shuddering homage to Twin Peaks

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The Californian avant-noise trio treat Angelo Badalmenti’s celebrated David Lynch score to a dose of atonality and violence

It’s difficult to overstate the cultural impact of Twin Peaks 25 years ago. Transferring his art-house cinema ethic to the small screen, David Lynch’s cerebral, surrealist murder mystery series towered like a desert skyscraper over the wastelands of mainstream US TV drama.

A large part of the series’ appeal lay in the hypnotic, spectral soundtrack that won a Grammy for its composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Invited earlier this year to reinterpret that music for a Lynch retrospective at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Californian avant-noise trio Xiu Xiu are now taking their work on a world tour.

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by Ian Gittins via Electronic music | The Guardian

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