Blog: State Magazine

To be honest, State had been expecting the worst. Stood motionless on stage, dressed head-to-toe in black, and with a dour expression etched across his face to match his appearance, The XX 's Ollie Sim doesn't exactly come across as a bundle of fun. Despite cramming a good deal of Stradbally's temporary populous into the Electric Arena tent last month's Electric Picnic, Sim and his cohorts look almost embarrassed by the attention being given to them and their deceptively simple, sparse and lonesome bunch of songs. Throughout, you couldn't describe them as anything but glum. Despite this lack of [...]