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At the time of this writing, "Spicchiologi" doesn't register a single hit on Google (not even google.it), which is pretty damned exciting in a way (even if we've just ruined the novelty by publishing this). I mean, how many combinations of letters in the Latin alphabet has Google not wrapped its grimy tentacles all over yet?

Chalk it up to two of the world's more original bands to invent such a word-- and then follow it up with a big ambiguous question mark. Spicchiologi? is the sophomore LP from XXL, the transatlantic collaboration between Italian post-rockers Larsen and American avant-shriek-rockers Xiu Xiu. The eight-track disc follows up 2005's exclamatory ¡Ciaütistico! (another Google first, it would seem) and arrives, tentatively, May 29. Like its predecessor, Spicchiologi? bears the stamp of experimental Massachusetts imprint Important Records.

This time around, Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy rep for Xiu Xiu, while Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Marco "Il Bue" Schiavo, Paolo Dellapiana, and Roberto Maria Clemente go to bat for Larsen. The results? Undoubtedly huge.

Spicchiologi?:

01 So Easy, So Cheap
02 Daydrinking
03 Little Mouse of the Favelas
04 King of Koalas
05 The Green Count Tapes
06 Last in the Society
07 ...Nothing About Dwarves?
08 The Tale of Brother Cakes and Sugar Dust