Blog: State Magazine

Early tasters of The xx’s second album all pointed to a more-of-the-same dictum. On first listen, 'Angels' had the same echoing guitar that was a common thread weaved through the fabric of their debut – on first listen that is. The lyrical content was so delicately softer, with female vocalist Romy Madley Croft singing of defiance in the fear of a burgeoning relationship that you felt perhaps there might be more to Coexist than meets the eye. That effect still works in this context, easing the listener into the album, almost creating the effect of a [...]