XIU XIU has long been known among the music bloggers as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new fourteen-song album, each song so different from the next and so fully realized, their creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. JAMIE STEWART has a novelist's eye for juicy details, and a poet's ability to wring impossible emotions out of the English language. The performances, led by Stewart's one-of-a-kind voice, are intense, virtuosic and painted in a spectrum of acoustic and electronic colors that one would be hard pressed to find equaled on any album. Many of the songs feature what is now officially the live lineup of the group, with Stewart and CARALEE McELROY joined by CHES SMITH on drums and DEVIN HOFF on bass. Women As Lovers marries the ancient with the futuristic, each in all their beauty and terror. Traditional gongs collide with a rat's nest of computerized layering.

1. I Do What I Want, When I Want
2. In Lust You Can Hear The Axe Fall
3. F.T.W.
4. No Friend Oh!
5. Guantanamo Canto
6. Under Pressure (featuring Michael Gira)
7. Black Keyboard
8. Master Of The Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel The Soil Falling Over My Head)
9. You Are Pregnant You, You Are Dead
10. The Leash
11. Child At Arms
12. Puff And Bunny
13. White Nerd
14. Gayle Lynn