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Release date: 20-10-2009

2009 EU issue vinyl LP - Debut studio album by the English indie pop group. The album features the singles 'Crystalised', 'Basic Space', 'Islands' and 'VCR' and won the 2010 Mercury Prize, and Best New Music --Pitchfork

(The XX are) making hauntingly beautiful music with its electro pop-soul jams and emotive lyrics. --Nylon

Fully formed and thoughtful. (8.7 Best New Music) --Pitchfork

The XX are worth the hype. --NPR, All Things Considered

The XX are four kids who formed at London's Elliot School in 2005, the south west comprehensive that produced the likes of dubstep enigma Burial, Hot Chip, and Fourtet's Kieren Hebden: But alone The XX stand, not only in the singularity of their influences and sound, but in the universal resonance of their music. Their unique make-up is a second nature marriage of 2009's urban / guitar tribes, in one corner fluttering new wave inspired reverberat.

Tracks:
A1    Intro
A2    VCR
A3    Crystalised
A4    Islands
A5    Heart Skipped A Beat
A6    Hot Like Fire

B1    Fantasy
B2    Shelter
B3    Basic Space
B4    Infinity
B5    Night Time
B6    Stars

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.