Blog: The Donnybrook Writing Academy

Most Likely To: make one feel kind of (but not very) dirty for listening. The xx are aptly named – while their music definitely conjures up a late night in the boudoir vibe, it stops one x short of being truly dirty. There's more foreplay than fornication going on here. Much has been made of The xx's debt to R & B, but to be perfectly honest there's not a single soul in the press corps who would make note of it were it not prominently called out in the band's [...]