Xiu Xiu x Eraserhead

Over the past two decades, Xiu Xiu has built a reputation for their prolific, unpredictable, and consistently brilliant output. Seventeen full-length albums — praised by the likes of The New Yorker, The Wire, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, NME, and more — and countless global tours have taken them everywhere from the Guggenheim to a basement in Kazakhstan.

In 2015, frontman Jamie Stewart joined forces with composer Lawrence English as HEXA, creating a live soundtrack to David Lynch’s Factory Photographs, personally invited by the director himself. One year later, with the blessing of Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, Xiu Xiu released and toured Plays the Music of Twin Peaks, a surprise hit that drew cult-like acclaim. Out of reverence for the series, they retired the project in 2018.

Following the recent and untimely death of David Lynch, the band received renewed requests to revive their Twin Peaks homage. But rather than repeat themselves, Xiu Xiu chose to dig deeper — to honor Lynch not by re-enacting, but by reimagining.

ERASERHEAD x XIU XIU is a new live score performance, set to visuals, that channels the unsettling, surreal, and emotionally raw terrain of Lynch’s debut feature. Using field recordings, custom-built instruments, organ, modular synths, voice, flashlights, electrical interference and musique concrète, the band dives headlong into the film’s nightmarish landscape of fraught sexuality, industrial dread, and lunar weirdness.

Alan Splet and Lynch’s original sound design and score act as ghostly guideposts, as Xiu Xiu builds their own sonic hallucination — like discovering an alternate cut of Eraserhead that only ever existed in their heads.