Blog: Mixtape Maestro

Few sounds in modern-day pop are as intoxicating to the earbudded dome as the whisper-quiet intensity conjured by voices of Oliver Sims and Romy Madley-Croft circling around eachother to Jamie Smith's sparse, goth-gloom concoctions, so it's all kind of fantastic that "Chained", the second preview of The xx' highly anticipated Coexist following on-line insta-smash "Angels" , would find the trio working within this stylistic angle once more. Melting into the roles of two once-happy lovers now on the verge of a break-up, Sims and Madley-Croft orbit eachother like two planets in [...]