Xiu Xiu, photo by Joe Stewart

Xiu Xiu have announced ERASERHEAD XIU XIU, a new album, film and live performance inspired by David Lynch’s feature debut. Releasing on July 10 via Polyvinyl, the experimental rock band’s transmutation of the 1977 masterpiece’s singularly inviting unease follows their acclaimed 2016 album and concert series, Plays the Music of Twin Peaks, and honors the late director with a reverent fleshing-out of his visual and sonic world. To preview the project, they’ve shared their version of “In Heaven,” composed by Peter Ivers with lyrics by Lynch.

Xiu Xiu will bring ERASERHEAD XIU XIU to the stage with four performances in Los Angeles, Vancouver and San Francisco from Oct. 1-10 and a premiere at Hobart, Tasmania’s Dark Mofo on June 21. According to a release, the album and accompanying film employ “field recordings, concert specific homemade instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical interference, and elements of musique concrete to express the bizarre emotionality, conflicted sexuality, relentless darkness, and unsettled moonscape of this most incredible of midnight masterpieces.” On the closing number, Xiu Xiu founder Jamie Stewart and longtime bandmate Angela Seo interpolate the spectral grace of Eraserhead’s musical centerpiece, a.k.a. the “Lady in the Radiator Song,” in a subsiding sound collage.

ERASERHEAD XIU XIU is available to pre-order and pre-save now.

ERASERHEAD XIU XIU – Xiu Xiu:
1. Viento
2. Sleep Synth
3. Tetra
4. Steampipe
5. Smashy Smashy
6. Ether
7. In Heaven