Menacingly sincere love letters for a post-romantic age. A sweetly vicious debut way beyond the years of its youthful creators (they’re 19!), this album tears apart music and stitches it back together with minimal guitar lines, droopy, low-end beats and cautious dual boy-girl vocals. It is one of the best of 2009, and a debut at that! Can’t not.
They’re on Young Turks/XL, the former is also home to Tanlines, which has nothing to do with the xx but is equally as cool. Check out their Myspace, where they’re friends with another UK prodigy, Micachu!
Best tracks: VCR, Crystalised, Islands, Basic Space, Heart Skipped A Beat
January 11th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
[...] so much with so little. Perhaps the recent popularity of bands such as jj and Honey Power faves the xx suggests an appreciation for a new aesthetic tendency in indie music, one that strips down sound [...]