XX by Xx (CD, 2009)

Jamie Smith

XL Recordings, Bqtx

0634904045029

15046051694

CD

2009

Indie Rock/Pop

Xx

XX

0.32 in

0.17 lb

5.59 in

4.91 in

1

11

1.1 Intro 1.2 VCR 1.3 Crystalised 1.4 Islands 1.5 Heart Skipped a Beat 1.6 Fantasy 1.7 Shelter 1.8 Basic Space 1.9 Infinity 1.10 Night Time 1.11 Stars

English

The xx unique make-up is an inadvertent second nature marriage of 2009's urban/guitar tribes, in one corner fluttering new wave indebted reverberation, in the other, plumes of post-dubstep sub-bass and figuratively, their defining core of rich R&B vocal textures. The enveloping vocal partnership of Romy and Oliver is one that would've dropped-jaws in any decade this century, and set amidst a shivering soundscape of beats and plucks, their bedroom-reared concrete-soul is being justly heralded as the UK's most original and treasured alt. Pop artifact of late.