This album is the musical equivalent of stumbling upon a snuff film on mom's computer

@nickabstract6774

5 жыл бұрын

Yo wtf my exact thoughts weird.

@saturatedneowax

5 жыл бұрын

"musically, this record was the equivalent to discovering an abandoned spaceship in a backyard to me" -Ground Control To Uncle Tom 3 years ago top comment from the exmilitary comment section

@lofy1263

3 жыл бұрын

@@saturatedneowax I saw both of these comments today wtf.

@dwangnoderbora

3 жыл бұрын

That's Black Keyboard knocking around in your psyche

@CapricornReese26

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds pretty accurate 😂😂

Xiu Xiu on that beat.

@insertname8889

5 жыл бұрын

Xiu Xiu got that dope

@fiachrarafferty9305

5 жыл бұрын

Yuh it's lit tbh

@ZachwasThere6

5 жыл бұрын

If Young Metro don’t trust you he gon Xiu Xiu

@julianwalker9782

5 жыл бұрын

You ugly! You yo Daddy's son

@rei9185

5 жыл бұрын

madison I like yours.

This album is honestly a bit too poppy and generic for me

@oldhead2854

5 жыл бұрын

yeah especially when it sounds like everything on the radio.

@07cowboyfan

5 жыл бұрын

The justin bieber feature honestly killed it for me

@edwardchen9619

4 жыл бұрын

@@07cowboyfan I prefer metal bands like taylor swift and ariana grande

@ejstavers587

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardchen9619 nah im edgy i like rap, like imagine dragons

@randomavenger3048

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardchen9619 Charli XCX is my favorite Power Metal band.

This album is too mainstream for me

@EclecticoIconoclasta

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah dude. I am also into avantgarde experimental artists like ariana Grande

@oryzantol6292

5 жыл бұрын

I just listened to 3 songs and this has got to be the least mainstream album I’ve heard in a minute. You’d never see the average person going through the radio and stopping to listen to this lmao

@TheProcrastigamer

5 жыл бұрын

Oryzantol wooooshhh

@craftmasy

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah not odd at all

@ryanmorris6388

5 жыл бұрын

>2019 >Still having melodies and chords Lmao they're not even trying

*chaotic and noisey* *creepy/scary theme* *experimental* Melon nuts

@florida_mane6267

5 жыл бұрын

Mmm... melon nuts

@Min-kp7ei

5 жыл бұрын

Shoot it on my face BOI

@spiderpigforlife1632

5 жыл бұрын

*D A R K P R O G*

@guyonagravitronmachinestan7595

5 жыл бұрын

Wait, melon nuts in this review? Time stamp?!

@anthg4563

5 жыл бұрын

Where is the lie

Girl with a basket of melon

@graphitepants6522

4 жыл бұрын

Basket with a fruit of melon

@boobdylan8904

3 жыл бұрын

Basket with a melon of girl

The thumbnail made it look like you were hitting your Juul

@ianfife7715

5 жыл бұрын

IveGotToast I thought he was just keeping those pearly whites in tip top shape.

@eli5168

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@yank_crime

5 жыл бұрын

Xiu Xiu in your mouth

@delmylopez6674

5 жыл бұрын

I thought he was brushing his teeth

Jamie is at his best when he sounds like an angry ghost

@JoaoPedro-lb6mr

Жыл бұрын

lol yes

Mary Turner Mary Turner might be the most terrifying song I've ever heard.

@LukeSnywalker523

5 жыл бұрын

Hard to beat Slug Bait by Throbbing Gristle for me but I was still thoroughly disturbed

@ffa1bc

5 жыл бұрын

@@LukeSnywalker523 I'd say Mary Turner wins for me. Knowing it's based on something that happened 100 years ago really fucks me up. As a non american, it's something I didn't have much knowledge of, and it was sickening to investigate more about it.

@aryasuri9421

5 жыл бұрын

Guest House by Daughters?

@naumchomsky8840

5 жыл бұрын

@@aryasuri9421 I actually think City Song is freakier, if only for the shrieking and atonal guitar stabs.

@GuysOfFilm

5 жыл бұрын

@@naumchomsky8840 City Song and Guest House are both disturbing in the most opposite of ways

XIU XIU Gets a 9!!!!! I'm going to drive around with this album at 11 for all the good conservative neighbors. Thanks Melon!!!!

@Brandon-me2qr

4 жыл бұрын

MattieCooper wtf are your videos

@Lost_117

Жыл бұрын

I blasted Mary turner mary turner through my small town at 3 am going 25 mph lol

@MattieCooper10000

Жыл бұрын

@@Lost_117 🤣😂🤣😂 That's the spirit!

This new record from the Shoe Shoe Boys is very easy to approach, and makes for great casual listening :-)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@hm3051

5 жыл бұрын

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

@zenshadow26055

5 жыл бұрын

Ass resist likes Xiu Xiu?

@Aztrosist

5 жыл бұрын

@@zenshadow26055 Xiu Xiu is fucking awesome. "FORGET" was one of my favorite albums of 2017.

@twincherries6698

5 жыл бұрын

@@Aztrosist nice to see you're a fan

@zhezc3270

5 жыл бұрын

woah didn't expect you here and liking Xiu Xiu

we almost got another 10/10 melon

@MiguelAXFlo

5 жыл бұрын

Have you heard this album?

@yank_crime

5 жыл бұрын

I’m assuming so. It’s 11/10 material

@AFormerClarity1

5 жыл бұрын

9 is really a 10 though.... let's be real

@yank_crime

5 жыл бұрын

>implying noise is bad and/or has no artistic merit

@AFormerClarity1

5 жыл бұрын

@Alex Ushi so why you watching this review if you just want to shit on it?? go listen to Adam Levine sing some Maroon 5 bitch

Needle Drop Scores 2019 : 10/10 : 0 9/10 : 1 8/10 : 3 7/10 : 4 6/10 : 7 5/10 : 2 4/10 : 2 3/10 : 1 2/10 : 0 1/10 : 0 NOT GOOD : 0 69/10 : 1

@christopherkuczynski7073

5 жыл бұрын

What was his 9/10?

@morgancockram9833

5 жыл бұрын

Alex AlGreen this review lmao

@kankurou1010

5 жыл бұрын

Alex AlGreen are you joking.

@AWWYEAHHHHHH

5 жыл бұрын

Alex AlGreen amazing bait man lmaooo

@seanwestbrook2071

5 жыл бұрын

There's only been one 8

Wow I heard the album is good, but when you ripped off the yellow flannel for the red one to reveal itself only to shout “NOT GOOD” I almost had a heart attack

@MyoticTesseract

5 жыл бұрын

I hope he actually does that sometime

@AWWYEAHHHHHH

5 жыл бұрын

Myotic Tesseract I was waiting for him to do that the whole time during the Arian grande album review

@YepsMr

5 жыл бұрын

but he didnt do that, im confused.

Mary Turner is one of the most impactful songs I've ever heard.

It's always nice for Melon to validate my music taste.

@yondeRqq

5 жыл бұрын

if you were a teenager browsing /mu/ in 2012 maybe

@tekashi5962

5 жыл бұрын

What’s your music taste?

@trevorhawley6896

5 жыл бұрын

Someone’s insecure about their taste

@farhanmarco7827

5 жыл бұрын

Who tf cares about music taste anymore?

Damn a 9. I hope this inspires you to do a classic review of ‘A Promise’ next year. I love that album so much.

@riptide312

5 жыл бұрын

fanny tooth nana if he reviewed xiu xiu for classics week i think he’d review fabulous muscles but you could definitely make a strong argument for a promise

@canorhan2903

3 жыл бұрын

@@riptide312 a promise is so much better than fabulous muscles imo

@riptide312

3 жыл бұрын

@@canorhan2903 i agree with you in restrospect. how do you rate fabulous muscles in xiu xiu’s discography?

@jacobsurface4230

2 жыл бұрын

Still waiting for the classic review 😭 either that, knife play or fabulous muscles would be dope. All amazing albums.

@SebbyIsYummy

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobsurface4230 yesss we need a classic review, their early work is so good Id love to hear his thoughts

Such a disturbing album. This might be their best, although Knife Play is probably tied. I love how they just change their sound every album while still remaining Xiu Xiu with the awkward vibrato and depressive and suicidal lyrics. This album was a lot more noise focused than that album which gives it a completely cutting-edge sound.

@danielbernas2293

5 жыл бұрын

Man Fabulous Muscles is a 10 tho

@Juan-wo7zu

4 ай бұрын

A promise is up there too

This should be tagged as dark prog

@maelfoucault9216

5 жыл бұрын

It's not a 10

@ducklordthegreat352

5 жыл бұрын

SpiderPigForLife real question tho wtf was he even referring to with that? TBK I guess? That’s the only major high score that I’d call prog at all.

@Videos5197

5 жыл бұрын

No

@maelfoucault9216

5 жыл бұрын

@@ducklordthegreat352 I guess Swans, DG, Daughters

@uwnbaw

5 жыл бұрын

Prog needs time signatures This album doesnt have it Death industrial is enough

Mary Turner Mary Turner might be the most twisted/horrifying/disgusting/brilliant songs I've ever heard

@jimmymeridian5174

3 жыл бұрын

the way it portrays the brutal murder, it's so different from what you usually hear from songs about murder - it's not mournful or poetic or ghostly. It seriously feels like absolute scorching insanity - so much fear and terror and confusion, and then finally anger. It doesn't sound like he's describing a brutal event from the long ago past, it's like he describing it in the moment.

Xiuthony Xiutano - Girl With Baskets Of Melons

Dude, there's a guy that looks just like you that is also a KZread music reviewer. And super racist.

@iii2524

5 жыл бұрын

thatistheplan

@warped1589

5 жыл бұрын

@@iii2524 you beat me to it

@cokedupnormies2651

4 жыл бұрын

@@iii2524 rip thatistheplan

This album terrified me I love it

This album is honestly more sp00ky and insane than the Daughters album melon loved so much

@earlsweatpants2395

5 жыл бұрын

Just with Mary Turner alone makes it more terryifing and disturbing

@Vandalgia

3 жыл бұрын

Daughters honestly is banging. Mary Turner makes me extremely uncomfortable and disturbed.

@stxcxv

2 жыл бұрын

i think daughters music is scarier than xiu xiu, even excluding the fact alexis marshall is a psychopath

@bng2946

Жыл бұрын

I'd say its more wild and unpredictable but in my opinion the way the daughters album was fleshed out thoroughly was more terrifying.

just listened to mary turner mary turner. yeah..

@jpegjpg5764

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah........

@nightmare-nightmarenightma1147

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah...............

@yenpox5386

5 жыл бұрын

...........haeY

@Yottifferent

4 жыл бұрын

...........haeYYeah...........

@auegh7704

4 жыл бұрын

It was good, never listening to it again

Gotta love that .5 second saxophone solo at the beginning

@highqualityspice5964

5 жыл бұрын

"saxophone"

@Dethmaster64

5 жыл бұрын

His .5 second long cover of the "BOOGIE" saxophone sample

@abhishektd8973

5 жыл бұрын

Why do I see a lot of accounts with exact same profile picture everywhere on this site?

@joshuadoty4682

5 жыл бұрын

Abhishek Td look up “oh yeah yeah”

@djsickbeatz4005

5 жыл бұрын

Abhishek Td a fortnite streamer/you tuber told their fans to make it their picture.

I read the description of this album on Bandcamp and read about Mary Turner and I was incredibly disturbed...then I listened to the actual song and now I want to curl up in a corner and cry

@earlsweatpants2395

5 жыл бұрын

*me*

@h.c5824

2 жыл бұрын

Me

I listened to this album walking back to my house on my own one night and it scared the shit out of me

This guy looks like Fantabongo

@Twocogsmontgumry

5 жыл бұрын

Waiting for the Digibro DLC in Doki Doki Death Grips Simulator

@draevonmay7704

5 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about? Fantabongo is like Chuchesta

10/10. Xiu Xiu are masters of making fucked up and tortured music while not being so abrasive that it becomes suffocating or day-ruining to listen to. Their more accessible pop-oriented material is excellent, too.

Just listened to this album..felt like I was bein assassinated by a serial killer...it was tense

Angel Guts: Red Classroom - 7/10 Forget - 8/10 Girl With Basket of Fruit - 9/10 Next album's gonna be 10/10

@WrenCubes

3 жыл бұрын

:eyes:

@dilw0nk

3 жыл бұрын

:eyes:

@ventoventi

3 жыл бұрын

:eyes:

@frackingfluidinjection

3 жыл бұрын

OH NO

@Only_here_4_funny

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, back to 7

"Girl with a basket of melon" comments coming..

@sTreek90

5 жыл бұрын

Stfu mom

I guess I’m not artistic enough to understand this album because I’ve spent the first three tracks in complete confusion

@dulin5531

5 жыл бұрын

lmao that’s the point that’s why “girl with basket of fruit” is a random title and on the next track “it comes out as a joke” signifies the ramblings of a mad man

@Zenene-ok5el

5 жыл бұрын

@@dulin5531 "Girl With Basket of Fruit" isn't a random title though, but a play on the title of one of Caravaggio's most famous paintings and a direct allusion to one of the main themes of the album: the difference in portrayal between male and female innocence and suffering. Not to say that there aren't more themes or that Xiu Xiu's lyrics aren't often surreal and seemingly arbitrary, but that doesn't mean there isn't authorial intent in those kind of details or that they're not supposed to be interpreted.

@GuysOfFilm

4 жыл бұрын

I mean what were you expecting? Anthony already described how freakish and chaotic and noisy the album is, that should've given you at least a little bit of expectation

Glad to see a good review for the Twin Peaks the Return audio book.

this album legitimately scares me. i’m just listening to someone go insane

i cant even call this music to be honest.. it felt like i was listening to events taking place in a movie.. like Scisssssssssors for example...batshit insane.. pretty awesome. but wow wtf. Ice cream truck sounds like the downward spirals of a mans psyche.

@hldr4345

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, it kind of always is with xiu xiu, it's always very very dark, dense, almost non-musical (except for FORGET, And their mid-era stuff)

Favorite album of the year. Brought me some of the most difficult yet rewarding music I’ve ever heard. Mary Turner has become one of my favorite songs. Such a hard-hitting and terrifying experience.

Xiu xiu is just feminist death grips

@Molteniceee

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit

@laproserpina2620

5 жыл бұрын

Wow

@gasparrocha2592

5 жыл бұрын

Stop memefying music

@dudeup1

5 жыл бұрын

FANTANO IS A MEME @@gasparrocha2592

@seanromanowski

5 жыл бұрын

Except way less talented

Here's a trick for listening to ANY difficult or less accessible music for the first time: Pretend you're in a car (or better - listen in your car). Imagine the music is the sound of the engine. Pinging, popping, screeching, banging. As long as the music has some rhythm, you'll get a whole different idea of what's going on in a track. Some things that seem like chaotic noise can seem just propulsive or sometimes even just kinda boingy and quaint.

@R-H-B

Жыл бұрын

That’s fucking genius

IDLES wants to know your location

@Forestgravy90

5 жыл бұрын

G/than Works idles wrote catchy Choonz but the lyrics and that singer irl makes me cringe

@Forestgravy90

5 жыл бұрын

𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷 there’s no subtlety, no poetry, no nuance and no sense of metaphor or allegorical subject. It’s just caveman speak “Masculinity is bad and you should cry!” “Muh Danny Nedelko is an immigrant he’s nice his name is spelt..” etc. And the way the guy speaks, he’s like a walking huffington post. It’s not bad music, I love the crunch of the guitars and the bluntness of them but I can’t get past that guy

@jbkjbk1999

5 жыл бұрын

@@Forestgravy90 the bluntness is part of the band's aesthetic. it's not a lack of understanding metaphor or allegory, it's an explicit aesthetic rejection of those things. the lyrics are crunchy and unsubtle and confrontational just like the instrumentals and the singing is crunchy and unsubtle and confrontational.

@Forestgravy90

5 жыл бұрын

there's forthrightness and aggression and bluntness and then there's a lack of creativity and relaying of basic messages from echo-chambered silly junkie groups. Seen the guy interviewed and he came across very poorly to me@@jbkjbk1999

@jbkjbk1999

5 жыл бұрын

@@Forestgravy90 have ye considered you just dont agree with what he's saying and it actually has naught to do with the songs

This album really deserved the yellow tbh

What you said about someone who has never reflected on our country's history of racism and hatred being thoroughly unnerved and disturbed after hearing "Mary Turner Mary Turner" could not have been more accurate. I honestly do not know how to feel anymore after hearing that and learning the history behind it.

This sounds like the album where I finally put the effort into getting into Xiu Xiu!

Post modern socialist propaganda never sounded so good

@mrlevinielsen

4 жыл бұрын

Duke Vilhern pol joesif hwatson?

This album is the musical equivalent of when you are peaking on a 10 strip of acid and you finally force yourself get up and walk to the bathroom to go pee

@R-H-B

Жыл бұрын

That sounds pretty fun tbh. I loved this album and I’ve never done acid soooo

U gave it a 10 bc you are Jamie Stewart's boy-toy.

@christophermccracken4296

5 жыл бұрын

Colleen Ryan i don’t blame him, jamie stewart can assert his dominance over me any day of the week

@nikolademitri731

5 жыл бұрын

the greatest boy I’d let Jamie use me like a hand puppet in a church production of The Passion play, or like the crusty gym sock I kept under my bed in high school... WOOF! 🤤😆

@18FrozenAngels

5 жыл бұрын

He gave it a 9 because Jamie finished too quickly last time.

Xiu Xiu dropping 3 incredible projects that are completely different from one another back to back has gotta be a special thing. This one in particular twisted my insides.

I love this album and I think you did a great review on it. Glad you liked it. Great job Fantano

I have never heard this album, but I was immediately intrigued by seeing ritual ambient and death industrial under the same album

@ant6k

2 жыл бұрын

yo nice profile pic

@R-H-B

2 жыл бұрын

Art pop and death industrial is what really intrigued me

Wow only a 6?! Honestly thought you'd enjoy this a lot more but I guess you can be pretty unpredictable at times, Anthony.

@birdissmall2677

5 жыл бұрын

You must be from Australia (xd im sooooo funnyy amiright)

@ziusudra970

5 жыл бұрын

Are you a death grape?

@kenyatta3840

5 жыл бұрын

Turn that 9 upside down it's a 6 now

0:54 idk what you're talking about, percussion has always been a big focus in xiu xiu's music, they've always had interesting percussion, and their first album was noted by a lot of critics for its gamelan percussion.

@hldr4345

5 жыл бұрын

I think he's talking 'bout the last 3 records (forget, unclouded sky and angel guts)

4:08 "Its an alt-right cut" i knew it, your alt-right is showing!

I really appreciated that little Kenny G-esque motif with the party horn at the beginning.

It looks like a melon juuling in the thumbnail

@meatrubber6552

5 жыл бұрын

What flavor brah

@plant55555

5 жыл бұрын

@@meatrubber6552 watermelon

Those genre tags have me very intrigued. Will check this out.

This album literally killed my soul

It's fun to see your reviews of xiu xiu. they are really a hit or miss band for you, which i like, other bands you only seem to be in a set range of scores but xiu xiu is very sporadic for you it seems.

Ive been commenting on every review sonce this album dropped so I could hear you love it as much as i did. I forgot to mention this but its fucking amazing how Eugene Robinson, who sounded like a damn madman all over the last Oxbow release is on this thing, so perfect.

the whole album sounds like a bad shrooms trip

I guess I won't ننسى this album anytime soon huheuehue

@youtub-fj8mu

5 жыл бұрын

haha gottem

@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786

4 жыл бұрын

You won't we forget this album anytime soon?

Really happy to see a channel of your size review a record from an artist like Xiu Xiu

Amargi ve Moo is easily the second best song on there, too.

@snowytundra1722

4 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@damando6631

Жыл бұрын

Its my favourite

This is the second time I've googled lynch victims and the 2nd time I've cried about it.

Wow never thought I’d see a yellow flannel for a 0/10 edit: this shit isn’t funny stop liking these comments

@ididgt4259

5 жыл бұрын

THIS IS THE WORST VACATION EVER

Worth...the...wait. This might be the best review I've seen yet

Just heard this album for the first time and tuned in to hear Anthony's thougts on "Mary Turner Mary Turner" and he didn't disappoint. This album's up there with Lingua Ignota and Nine Inch Nails as the most harrowing I've ever heard, and honestly this one's scarier than 99 percent of horror movies I've ever seen. What a landmark achievement.

that meat locker analogy tho wow

i felt sick and unsafe listening to this

The first timeI heard this I knew it would come. It would come and save me from my misery the blandness of not knowing what true weird shit exists out there and without the manic sounds of stings shooting from the top of the door. Yeah it was a pretty good album.

@figls2345

5 жыл бұрын

Light to decent

Fuck yeah!! I hadn't heard Xiu-Xiu before but damn, after you mentioned them a few times on the other channel and after this vid I had to listen. Instant love! And hell yeeeeah their tour stops in Stockholm!

Mary Turner Mary Turner is really profoundly depressing and haunting

Okay, this was unexpected

MAN THAT INTRO IS SO SAMPLE(able), im gonna do a track with that. TOOO TO

This is definitely one of Xiu Xiu’s best releases in awhile. Though I haven’t heard much of their under the table releases like the Drugs series, this album stands out among their ‘main’/ commercial albums.

Stan Angela Seo, queen of Kpop.

Pumpkin attack is an avant-garde banger for sure.

@turboshazed7370

Жыл бұрын

Best song here.

MARY TURNER MARY TURNER is both one of the most distressing song's I've ever heard and also one of my favorite songs of the year

I WAS GONNA ASK YOU TO REVIEW THIS IM SO HAPPY

Girl With Basket Of Fruit is a 10/10 album for me and almost beat out Schlagenheim for me. Then I listened to Come In.

@Roncstelep_

4 жыл бұрын

Same 10/10 album for sure.

Girl with basket of fruit is for normal people.

❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️Good on you needledrop! Light 9 deservingly 👏👏👏👏👏

stop ignoring their first albums lmao. they're the best

@ByeByeDeadName

Жыл бұрын

What do you want him to do? Build a Time Machine so he can go back and review them?

new xiu xiu album march 3rd 2023 woo!!

Wow, Melon giving a dark, experimental, abrasive and in-your-face album a high score? I never woulda guessed!

I havent been able to stop listening to Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy since i first heard it. Been listening to it like 3 times a day for a month now. After being a Fabulous Muscles listener for years, im stoked to get deeper into Xiu Xiu

I've listened to this twice now, and it REALLY is not my thing, I just can't feel good listening to it, but I really do get its artistic merit and why you like it as much as you do!

You had me at death industrial

i return to fantano's xiu xiu reviews occaisionally just to remember how "xiu xiu" is pronounced

@allyson--

2 жыл бұрын

same here

@indep_

9 ай бұрын

shoe shoe

This album is incredible, i'm in awe

Honestly, I would love to give this a listen, but I tried to listen to one of their albums a while back, and I only got four tracks in before I had to shut it off. It fucked me up so bad that I got physically sick. So yeah, I'm gonna pass on this one.

@earlsweatpants2395

5 жыл бұрын

Whispers *do it do it*

Phew, thought you lost yourself after the Thank U, Next review

Me looking at bro as he plays this album in front of the hoes : 🤨

I thought Anthony was doing a whippet in the thumbnail

That was one jazzy little intro. Got me pumped.

YOOOO this year we're gonna have 4 10/10's yes I came from the future wooooo

@josephancion2190

4 жыл бұрын

No, but we do have 10 9/10s as of December.

@maddies_he4rt

4 жыл бұрын

HalfRamen this comment aged poorly

I have tried this album. I just can't get into it at all, I'll try their earlier albums.

@willem-dafemme

5 жыл бұрын

Albums such as forget, always and fabulous muscles are much more digestable. I'd recommend starting with one of those!

best review, glade you understood the album

thank you for bringing this into my life, fatnano. It terrifies and amazes me.