Women as Lovers is the sixth studio album

Studio album

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 by American

United States

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 avant-garde band Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu

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. It was released on January 29, 2008, by Kill Rock Stars

Kill Rock Stars

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, and shares its title with the Martin Chalmers translation of Elfriede Jelinek's

Elfriede Jelinek

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 1975 novel Die Liebhaberinnen.

Prior to its release, the album was reported to be "more approachable or communicative on a basic human level" than anything else the band has released. The first track, "I Do What I Want When I Want", was released on December 11 via Pitchfork Media's

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 "Forkcast", and is also available free of charge from Kill Rock Stars'

Kill Rock Stars

Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission...

 webstore.

The release through the iTunes store

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 includes seven exclusive bonus tracks, whilst 500 limited edition copies were packaged with a DVD called "What's Your Problem?", containing four tour films, 100 photos, and sixteen music videos.

Tracklisting

1. "I Do What I Want, When I Want" – 3:12
2. "In Lust You Can Hear the Axe Fall" – 3:30
3. "F.T.W." – 2:56
4. "No Friend Oh!" –3:48
5. "Guantanamo Canto" – 2:37
6. "Under Pressure
   Under Pressure
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   " [ft. Michael Gira
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   ] – 3:30
7. "Black Keyboard" – 3:57
8. "Master of the Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head)" – 3:55
9. "You Are Pregnant You, You Are Dead" – 2:16
10. "The Leash" – 2:15
11. "Child at Arms" – 2:52
12. "Puff and Bunny" – 2:51
13. "White Nerd" – 2:45
14. "Gayle Lynn" – 3:13

iTunes USA bonus tracks

1. "From the Balcony to the Mud, Part 1" – 0:44
2. "Kitten Revolution" – 5:40
3. "There Are Two Men in a Red Mercedes Trying to Rape a Woman in My Parking Space" – 3:34
4. "Farther On (Traditional)" - 3:35
5. "Juarez" – 4:27
6. "From the Balcony to the Mud, Part 2" – 0:30
7. "Interview: An 11 Year Old Girl from the Ukraine Emailed These This Year, All Year" - 11:18

External links

• Amazon.com listing