The xx
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Latitude Festival Review: The Quietus Gets Saucy In Southwold
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 24 July 2009
The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival ...
xx — A Teen Band With A Difference
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 13 August 2009
The minimalist four-piece band from a Notting Hill garage are equally awed by Pixies and Aaliyah ...
The xx: Between Les Paul's Pick-Up and the Akai MPC2000
Comment by John Doran, The Quietus, 27 August 2009
It is quite timely that the XX's debut came out during the same month that Les Paul died. They are the perfect band for a ...
The xx: xx (Young Turks/XL Recordings)
Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, March 2010
THIS LONDON-BASED QUARTET-turned-trio is fronted by a pair of precocious 20-year-olds in Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sims, who share vocals with an intimacy that’s ...
The xx: Doom On The Dancefloor
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, March 2010
IF YOU’RE NOT completely averse to new age poppycock, it’s interesting to note that according to numerologists, the letter "x" indicates sensual, artistic, and temperamental–which ...
South by Southwest: Where The Weird Get Going
Report by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 26 March 2010
The freaks were out in force in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest festival. Stephen Dalton revels in the music ...
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 25 April 2010
What's it like to have taught someone who went on to be a pop star? The teachers of Alex Turner, Leona Lewis, the xx and ...
A Trip To Oya In Oslo Via Pavement, Munch & MIA
Report by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 20 August 2010
IF YOU GO for a cigarette on the fourth floor balcony of the hotel, you see cruise-ships and boats flanking a floating stage, upon which ...
Earthy & Complicated: The xx's Coexist Track By Track
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 August 2012
Next month, London trio The xx release their much-anticipated second album Coexist. Luke Turner takes you on a track-by-track guide through its eleven "far more ...
Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, September 2012
Refined progression, this is the sound of a band both expanding and consolidating. ...
The xx: Coexist (Young Turks/XL)
Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 8 September 2012
IF THE xx's second album lacks, through necessity, the surprise value of the first, then it doesn't disappoint in any other way. ...
The xx's Coexist Is An Album To Get You In The Mood For Misery
Comment by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 20 September 2012
Ideal for autumn, the season of mists... ...
the xx: Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 14 December 2012
MODESTY, UNDERSTATEMENT and tasteful restraint have no place in pop music, an art form tailor-made for dysfunctional drama queens. Yet somehow the xx have backed ...
Live Review by Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 22 May 2013
SPLIT OPEN the head of Jamie xx and you might expect to find an image of post-industrial sadness – an empty ferris wheel turning in the rain, ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 12 January 2017
In The xx's third full-length effort, Luke Turner finds an album seemingly more geared toward the televisions syncs that catapulted their once affecting minimalism to ...
Review and Interview by Tom Doyle, MOJO, February 2017
Wandsworth trio's third retains the darkness while letting in more light. ...
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