Is there a 'Xiu Xiu scene'? You know, Xiu Xiu, Parenthetical Girls, The Dead Science... all distinct, yeh, but all still on some level cut from the same basic template- mewling feminised vocals, sense of high drama and trauma, atonal, often counter-intuitive arrangements... you know what I mean. But in the same way that Parenthetical Girls have a sumptuous, sickly, almost *poppy* allure that Xiu Xiu probably won't ever ...