Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

They never suggested it was on the cards, but part of me really wanted The xx to split up after the Mercury Prize-winning success of their self titled debut album.  A record so singular, so sonically distinctive and so beloved by the masses it was that I suspected anything that was to follow it – be that a radical departure, or more of the same – was bound to be deemed a disappointment by way of comparison.  What better way of cementing their debut’s place as a true classic than by never making a [...]