Xiu Xiu: "Stupid in the Dark" (via SoundCloud)

Xiu Xiu already have a new album in the hopper: their Nina Simone tribute LP Nina, out December 2. Today, they've announced a new album of original material that's due in 2014. The follow-up to 2012's Always is called Angel Guts: Red Classroom, and it's out February 4 via Polyvinyl. (Update: It's out via Bella Union in the UK.) That's "Stupid in the Dark" above, along with the album cover.

The title of the album comes from a 1979 Japanese erotic film. A press release says "Angel Guts: Red Classroom is the beginning of Xiu Xiu's descent from grayness into the deepest blackness endurable. It is the sound of Xiu Xiu's death." It adds, "The subject matter—racialized sex, double suicide, double penetration, criminality, fear of physical harm—is unsuitable for the faint of heart. But when the heart has stopped beating, only the soul remains to carry on."

The opening lines of the album are: "Your face is down alone / On your desk / At the end of the city / You were squashed into / There is no one you love."

Angel Guts: Red Classroom

01 Angel Guts:
02 Archie's Fades
03 Stupid in the Dark
04 Lawrence Liquors
05 Black Dick
06 New Life Immigration
07 EL Naco
08 Adult Friends
09 The Silver Platter
10 Bitter Melon
11 A Knife in the Sun
12 Cinthya's Unisex
13 Botanica de Los Angeles
14 :Red Classroom

Watch the video for "Honeysuckle" from Always: