"XIXA (...) are an ensemble who, like fellow Tucsonians, Calexico, start off from their desert base and incorporate the exotic sounds of southern neighbours but, in XIXA's case they cast further afield. They share with Calexico that sense of casting a bold, widescreen cinematic feel to their music, although in XIXA's case there is more melodrama with hints of blood-soaked Italian Cinema Giallo along with a whiff of Jodorowsky's El Topo, and there's certainly more fuzz and distortion in the guitars while the vocals at times seem to have crawled from a tomb".