Xiu Xiu channels the spectral sounds of “Eraserhead” ⁠76%

By Kelly McClure⁠83%

7/10/2026, 10:39:28 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Anecdotal, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 80.1% saturation with 270 hits. Analysis detected 1,634 faulty-reasoning hits from 337 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠76% (5,333 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.60% of the article peer group.

Listening to Xiu Xiu’s “ Eraserhead ” on a hot and stormy Friday afternoon is an atavistic summoning of the many gifts that David Lynch left us to remember him by. 
Out July 10 via Polyvinyl (and pointedly absent from Spotify), the band’s latest tribute to the music of Lynch’s most famous work is a follow-up to their release of “Plays the Music of Twin Peaks” in 2016, which was composed under the blessing of Lynch himself. 
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David Lynch’s musical collaborations built worlds out of what was heard as much as what was seen 
Over seven tracks, many of which are lengthy, so as to allow listeners to really sink into and meditate upon the clanks and cluds and hisses of the industrial gloom of the film itself, Xiu Xiu’s “Eraserhead” album ends with the heartbreak it builds towards from the start, with frontman Jamie Stewart putting his signature mournful vocals to best use for his rendition of Peter Ivers and David Lynch’s “In Heaven.” 
Having recently visited Lynch’s modest grave at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, which faces a pond that’s become the lazy stomping ground for ducks, peacocks and sad-hearted film fans, I’m wondering now if it would be possible to go back and hide speakers in the greenery that would play Xiu Xiu’s “Eraserhead” on a loop. 
The sound of Hollywood traffic in the background, birds splashing water, and Stewart’s ghostly delivery of “In Heaven, everything thing is fine,” could be the spell that brings the night blooming jasmine off the text on Lynch’s grave and into the air. 
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The post Xiu Xiu channels the spectral sounds of “Eraserhead” appeared first on Salon.com . 
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337 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers65%attributed speech117writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 100.0% coveragePolyvinyl • 46 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageDavid Lynch • 17 words • 100.0% coverageJamie Stewart • 71 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 56 words • 100.0% coverageJamie Stewart • 42 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageDavid Lynch • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageDavid Lynch • 12 words • 100.0% coverageSalon.com • 15 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Polyvinyl

100%flagged-word coverage
46 attributed words21% of attributed speech97% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Polyvinyl: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +98.3 ptsWriter: 1.7%Polyvinyl: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-94.9 ptsWriter: 94.9%Polyvinyl: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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