The xx's Oliver Sim Announces Debut Studio Album 'Hideous Bastard'

Oliver Sim, one-third of English indie band The xx, will be releasing his debut studio LP this fall. Entitled Hideous Bastard, the10-track project grapples with themes of fear, shame and masculinity, particularly Sim's experience of living with HIV since he was a teenager.On the first single off of the forthcoming album, "Hideous," Sim directly addresses his HIV-positive status, singing about how "radical honesty may set [him] free.""Two thirds in, having a good idea of what the record was about...