Xiu Xiu are to release a new album in the new year.

Women as Lovers, the follow-up to 2006's The Air Force, will appear as if by magic on the 29th of January two thousand and eight.

Minds aren't working today, so let's clamber straight into the nuts and bolts of the thing. Tracklisting:

'I Do What I Want When I Want'
'In Lust You Can Hear the Axe Fall'
'F.T.W.'
'No Friend Oh!'
'Guantanamo Canto'
'Under Pressure' [ft. Michael Gira]
'Black Keyboard'
'Master of the Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head)'
'You Are Pregnant, You Are Dead'
'The Leash'
'Child at Arms'
'Puff and Bunny'
'White Nerd'
'Gayle Lynn'

The record features contributions from Michael Gira of Swans and Angels of Light; as well as John Dieterich from Deerhoof, who also donate Greg Saunier for mixing duties.