Xiu Xiu have announced ‘Eraserhead Xiu Xiu’, a full-length album and live concert experience exploring the sonic and visual universe of David Lynch’s groundbreaking 1977 cinematic masterpiece. The record arrives July 10, 2026 via Polyvinyl, and today the band shares the first taste — a stunning rendition of In Heaven, the beloved film song with music originally written by Peter Ivers and lyrics by Lynch himself. The single arrives alongside a beautifully evocative video collage that feels every bit as strange and haunting as the source material deserves.
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Going Deeper
Back in 2016, with the personal blessing of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, Xiu Xiu released and toured the widely celebrated ‘Plays the Music of Twin Peaks’ — a project they retired in 2018 out of respect for the beloved series. Following Lynch’s recent and untimely passing, the band began fielding high-profile requests to bring that concert back. But staying true to the relentlessly high artistic bar Lynch himself set, Xiu Xiu made a different call entirely: they’re going deeper.
‘Eraserhead Xiu Xiu’ is a new live concert with accompanying film and full-length album that channels field recordings, concert-specific homemade instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical interference, and elements of musique concrète to express the bizarre emotionality, conflicted sexuality, relentless darkness, and singularly unsettled moonscape of Lynch’s most uncompromising work. Eraserhead’s original sound design and score by Alan Splet and Lynch serve as guiding spirits throughout, filtered through Xiu Xiu’s unmistakable lens — baffling, pummeling, and alive.
The album is a masterclass in sound collage and experimentation. Tracks like Tetra and Sleep Synth drift between minimal auditory sensation and grotesque, clobbering cacophony. Closing things out, In Heaven arrives as a moment of genuine tenderness — Jamie Stewart’s delicate vocals drawing out the elegance and wonder buried inside Lynch’s directorial debut.
Is it a short-term art installation? An exploded tribute to a cinematic triumph? An epitaph to an idol, via an entirely new work? Yes. Is it intense, odd, curious, and shrouded in the gloomiest of nights? Of course. After all — it’s Eraserhead.
The album was played and recorded by Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart at Krankenschwester, Berlin, and mastered by Alan Douches at West Westside Music, New Windsor, NY.
‘Eraserhead Xiu Xiu’ track list
- Viento
- Sleep Synth
- Tetra
- Steampipe
- Smashy Smashy
- Ether
- In Heaven
Tour Dates
* Eraserhead performance
- 21/06 — Hobart, Tasmania @ Dark Mofo * [SOLD OUT]
- 01/10–11/10 — Vancouver, BC @ Vancouver International Film Festival
- 02/10 — Los Angeles, CA @ 2220 Arts + Archives *
- 03/10 — Los Angeles, CA @ 2220 Arts + Archives *
- 08/10 — San Francisco, CA @ Gray Area *
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