Sonic Level: Xiu Xiu - Boy Soprano

Taking risks is something I really admire when it comes to bands, genres and concepts. All music inspired by the past and similar to the things recorded years ago - it's fine, I won't complain about it. Relying on old good ideas is often more than satisfying, but crossing the line to meet unexpected means much more. Artists who step into unfamiliar terrain are usually bad at execution of their brilliant ideas; yet they are good at pushing progress further. Sometimes they all end up forgotten in shadows of those who exploited their concepts, but the oblivion is really, really undeserved.

I'm asking myself what's the future of psychodelic indie project, the marvellous Jamie Stewart's Xiu Xiu. Will he end up fullfilled and appreciated just as his freak friends - Devendra Banhart and Animal Collective? Or, more probably, he is going to remain a hidden trend-setter only for someone in the know. With eight albums recorded and ten years of activity there is no sign of mainstream breakthrough. Do they even need it? I don't think so. They are noise lovers after all. This simple fact attaches them to underground.

So nevermind, let the chaos display itself in Boy Soprano's crazy cacophony. Here is a song that denies a definition of a hit and still is one: the one which you'll probably never here in radio.

Xiu Xiu - Boy Soprano