Blog: There Goes the Fear

I’ll admit it. When the xx first broke onto the scene, released their album and even when they got that coveted Mercury seal of approval; I simply didn’t get it. It wasn’t the kind of post-rock that builds up to something epic. It didn’t have a Sigur Ros style of beauty nor did it seem to have the subtlety and beat of Apparat. . In many ways, I still feel that way. What has changed in my mind to make me suddenly this year pick up the album once [...]