Blog: State Magazine

On a brief North American tour to preview songs from their forthcoming second album Coexist and with two years having passed since the trio last toured their Mercury Prize winning self titled album, The XX look and sound more confident and relaxed on stage than ever before. Romy Madley-Croft Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith spend the show cloaked in a thick fog of smoke, with occasional white beams of light penetrating through the darkness. The atmospheric stage setting - with the band in silhouette throughout the evening - is the perfect complement to Croft and Sim’s [...]