What Xiu Xiu is kind of depends on the listener.
Outsiders could call the band an experimental electronic act that recalls The Magnetic Fields sans Prozac, with an occasional stalking habit.
Others, hearing catharsis in the chaos, swear by group leader Jamie Stewart's sometimes creepy, self-involved audible eccentricities.
Whatever your take, the three-piece act plays Solar Culture on Saturday with another semi-experimental act, Evangelista, which has a little more punk-cabaret in its veins.
The all-ages show is $10 and starts at 9 p.m.
(Read the Star's 2007 stories about safety concerns at Downtown warehouses at go.azstarnet.com/solarculture.)
— Kevin W. Smith
