Xiu Xiu - Girl with Basket of Fruit ALBUM REVIEW

[@darkcuttoy]

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

[@nickabstract6774]

Yo wtf my exact thoughts weird.

[@saturatedneowax]

"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]

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

[@dwangnoderbora]

That's Black Keyboard knocking around in your psyche

[@CapricornReese26]

Sounds pretty accurate 😂😂

[@rei9185]

Xiu Xiu on that beat.

[@insertname8889]

Xiu Xiu got that dope

[@fiachrarafferty9305]

Yuh it's lit tbh

[@ZachwasThere6]

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

[@julianwalker9782]

You ugly! You yo Daddy's son

[@rei9185]

madison I like yours.

[@obamachad7677]

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

[@oldhead2854]

yeah especially when it sounds like everything on the radio.

[@07cowboyfan]

The justin bieber feature honestly killed it for me

[@edwardchen9619]

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

[@ejstavers587]

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

[@randomavenger3048]

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

[@Cayde5]

This album is too mainstream for me

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

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

[@oryzantol6292]

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]

Oryzantol wooooshhh

[@craftmasy]

Yeah not odd at all

[@ryanmorris6388]

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

[@IveGotToast]

The thumbnail made it look like you were hitting your Juul

[@ianfife7715]

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

[@eli5168]

LMAO

[@yank_crime]

Xiu Xiu in your mouth

[@delmylopez6674]

I thought he was brushing his teeth

[@Graymasterful]

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

[@florida_mane6267]

Mmm... melon nuts

[@Min-kp7ei]

Shoot it on my face BOI

[@spiderpigforlife1632]

*D A R K P R O G*

[@guyonagravitronmachinestan7595]

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

[@anthg4563]

Where is the lie

[@Graymasterful]

Girl with a basket of melon

[@graphitepants6522]

Basket with a fruit of melon

[@boobdylan8904]

Basket with a melon of girl

[@ThisAlbino]

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

[@shyb4b4]

lol yes

[@1UPVideos]

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

[@NatRealActual]

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]

I hope he actually does that sometime

[@AWWYEAHHHHHH]

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

[@Triunity4]

but he didnt do that, im confused.

[@MattieCooper10000]

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]

MattieCooper wtf are your videos

[@Lost_117]

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

[@MattieCooper10000]

@@Lost_117 🤣😂🤣😂 That's the spirit!

[@Aztrosist]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@hm3051]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[@zenshadow26055]

Ass resist likes Xiu Xiu?

[@Aztrosist]

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

[@twincherries6698]

@@Aztrosist nice to see you're a fan

[@zhezc3270]

woah didn't expect you here and liking Xiu Xiu

[@fannytoothnana6853]

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]

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]

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

[@riptide312]

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

[@jacobsurface4230]

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

[@SebbyIsYummy]

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

[@apothicadark]

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

[@LukeSnywalker523]

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

[@ffa1bc]

@@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]

Guest House by Daughters?

[@naumchomsky8840]

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

[@GuysOfFilm]

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

[@ggallintedtalk]

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]

What was his 9/10?

[@morgancockram9833]

Alex AlGreen this review lmao

[@kankurou1010]

Alex AlGreen are you joking.

[@AWWYEAHHHHHH]

Alex AlGreen amazing bait man lmaooo

[@seanwestbrook2071]

There's only been one 8

[@superluigi2254]

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]

Man Fabulous Muscles is a 10 tho

[@juanfilipwinifred]

A promise is up there too

[@CoolMoon]

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

[@yondeRqq]

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

[@tekashi5962]

What’s your music taste?

[@trevorhawley6896]

Someone’s insecure about their taste

[@farhanmarco7827]

Who tf cares about music taste anymore?

[@Liquid--Bacon]

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

[@iii2524]

thatistheplan

[@warped1589]

@@iii2524 you beat me to it

[@cokedupnormies2651]

@@iii2524 rip thatistheplan

[@vongerlachter]

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

[@spiderpigforlife1632]

This should be tagged as dark prog

[@maelfoucault9216]

It's not a 10

[@ducklordthegreat352]

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]

No

[@maelfoucault9216]

@@ducklordthegreat352 I guess Swans, DG, Daughters

[@uwnbaw]

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

[@LukeSnywalker523]

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]

*me*

[@h.c5824]

Me

[@Swishead]

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

[@seanrichardson2780]

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

[@jimmymeridian5174]

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.

[@jasonbailey458]

just listened to mary turner mary turner. yeah..

[@jpegjpg5764]

Yeah........

[@nightmare-nightmarenightma1147]

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

[@yenpox5386]

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

[@Yottifferent]

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

[@auegh7704]

It was good, never listening to it again

[@NomNomGohan]

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

[@earlsweatpants2395]

Just with Mary Turner alone makes it more terryifing and disturbing

[@Vandalgia]

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

[@stxcxv]

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

[@bng2946]

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

[@PFDadReacts]

Xiuthony Xiutano - Girl With Baskets Of Melons

[@joshuadoty4682]

Gotta love that .5 second saxophone solo at the beginning

[@highqualityspice5964]

"saxophone"

[@Dethmaster64]

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

[@abhishektd8973]

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

[@joshuadoty4682]

Abhishek Td look up “oh yeah yeah”

[@djsickbeatz4005]

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

[@mixmix862]

This guy looks like Fantabongo

[@Twocogsmontgumry]

Waiting for the Digibro DLC in Doki Doki Death Grips Simulator

[@MeniscoManeiro]

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

[@airplaneoverthesemen]

This album terrified me I love it

[@GroovyBearTV]

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

[@sTreek90]

Stfu mom

[@gutterbaby8382]

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.

[@bigbear9182]

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

[@dulin5531]

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]

@@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]

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

[@jacobreveles7222]

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

[@WrenCubes]

:eyes:

[@dilw0nk]

:eyes:

[@ventoventi]

:eyes:

[@frackingfluidinjection]

OH NO

[@Only_here_4_funny]

Nope, back to 7

[@ROFLOLGAMER]

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

[@maxrockbin]

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]

That’s fucking genius

[@pringlesmegastack8575]

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

[@fish5215]

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.

[@kg3658]

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]

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)

[@ethangrubb8318]

IDLES wants to know your location

[@Forestgravy90]

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

[@Forestgravy90]

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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@Outoftime98]

Post modern socialist propaganda never sounded so good

[@mrlevinielsen]

Duke Vilhern pol joesif hwatson?

[@ilikespacedinosaurs]

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]

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

[@TY_2020]

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.

[@dudeup1]

Xiu xiu is just feminist death grips

[@Molteniceee]

Holy shit

[@laproserpina2620]

Wow

[@gasparrocha2592]

Stop memefying music

[@dudeup1]

FANTANO IS A MEME @@gasparrocha2592

[@seanromanowski]

Except way less talented

[@brookeschell4634]

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]

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

[@nicholasmiller3725]

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.

[@Auroron]

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

[@colleenryan2703]

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

[@christophermccracken4296]

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

[@nikolademitri731]

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]

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

[@elijahlonmoriones2493]

It looks like a melon juuling in the thumbnail

[@meatrubber6552]

What flavor brah

[@plant55555]

@@meatrubber6552 watermelon

[@owen1686]

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]

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

[@ziusudra970]

Are you a death grape?

[@kenyatta3840]

Turn that 9 upside down it's a 6 now

[@herschaft]

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

[@PolicemanPlanet]

This album really deserved the yellow tbh

[@GooGuGajoob]

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

[@matt00794]

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.

[@warped1589]

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

[@youtub-fj8mu]

haha gottem

[@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786]

You won't we forget this album anytime soon?

[@evanfar845]

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

[@ant6k]

yo nice profile pic

[@R-H-B]

Art pop and death industrial is what really intrigued me

[@grim1683]

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

[@acidtacos455]

the whole album sounds like a bad shrooms trip

[@Eugene4251]

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

[@ididgt4259]

THIS IS THE WORST VACATION EVER

[@josephancion2190]

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

[@snowytundra1722]

I agree!

[@damando6631]

Its my favourite

[@niershere]

Mary Turner Mary Turner is really profoundly depressing and haunting

[@ChristofEightyEight]

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.

[@figls2345]

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]

Light to decent

[@TheAndrewj96]

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]

Whispers *do it do it*

[@diskjockle]

This album literally killed my soul

[@noctaroh5121]

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.

[@sbands1]

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

[@DJsuperNOVA15]

that meat locker analogy tho wow

[@Gabrielcezar94]

Pitchfork will deeply regret in the near future for failing to recognise the greatness of Xiu Xiu

[@bootleg_24]

im actually unironically scared of this album

[@apeheadboink]

new xiu xiu album march 3rd 2023 woo!!

[@owenpattaylor]

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

[@allyson--]

same here

[@indep_]

shoe shoe

[@jvictor3048]

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

[@griffinfiles8160]

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

[@biggerlion4960]

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_]

Same 10/10 album for sure.

[@fcochandia]

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

[@halframen]

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

[@josephancion2190]

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

[@maddies_he4rt]

HalfRamen this comment aged poorly

[@deeplyZinc]

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

[@BiPhBiPhBiPhBiPh]

Stan Angela Seo, queen of Kpop.

[@Blaza303]

This feels like if an A24 film was an album

[@tuomas2638]

Pumpkin attack is an avant-garde banger for sure.

[@turboshazed7370]

Best song here.

[@nikkijvideos]

I WAS GONNA ASK YOU TO REVIEW THIS IM SO HAPPY

[@daft8090]

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

[@ByeByeDeadName]

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

[@CucumbersSC]

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!

[@marikoth]

You had me at death industrial

[@elijahmaier5975]

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.

[@Fadesluvsyou]

Okay, this was unexpected

[@Kianleahy]

I thought Anthony was doing a whippet in the thumbnail

[@unknow_oh]

Girl with basket of fruit is for normal people.

[@mathbrooo]

brad's gotta see this one

[@justaguywithhisgrasseson5522]

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

[@buckham14]

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

[@jukmifggugghposer]

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

[@rckkatansky5783]

This album is incredible, i'm in awe

[@anthonymoran6989]

Great review Melon! I don’t think any record this year can top this record in terms of being a nauseating and twisted experience. Especially on Mary Turner with its final lines, “ Fuck your guns,” “fuck your war,” “fuck your truck,” “ fuck your flag”. Just a brilliant fucked up experience.

[@clydecore]

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

[@SamIsNotACritic]

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

[@Dingus.8895]

If this album was called “to pimp a basket of fruit” you would’ve given out of 10

[@GoodVolition]

Yes! Finally a 9! I'm don't even listen to Xiu Xiu I'm just glad 2019 got something above an 8. It's been a 6/10 year.

[@DiegaydeLaVerga]

I mean it's not even March yet but fuck 2019 I guess

[@killerhedgehog69]

“Hope you’re doing well,” said Anthony as he peered into the reflection of my eyes and saw only one thing. . . His bulbous melon.