Earlier this month, Xiu Xiu released their latest record, Angel Guts: Red Classroom on Polyvinyl. Inspired by an erotic Japanese horror film by the same, Angel Guts: Red Classroom now is getting it’s own horror movie treatment with the video for “El Naco.” Directed by John Clark, the video is a dark tribute to the album’s roots in dark erotica and premiered at horror movie central Bloody-Disgusting.com. Watch the NSFW video below.
Angel Guts: Red Classroom is the beginning of Xiu Xiu’s descent from grayness into the deepest blackness endurable. It is the sound of Xiu Xiu’s death. This is a bold proposition, even for a band that has never so much pushed the envelope as pulled it (forcefully) away from the line other musicians are willing to toe. And now, in what is unquestionably their darkest hour, Xiu Xiu have lit the envelope on fire and are using it as a torch to light the path ahead.