Video: The xx - Crystalised

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2011 was the year of R&B and was huge for Toronto's The Weeknd . Throughout 2011 he dropped 3 free albums and grew his fan base like no other. So if you follow all his social networks, you might have seen him post a mixtape of one of his producers DropXLife . This was one of his producers who has been featured on each mixtape and produced "Initiation" on his latest Echoes of Silence. But this time the focus is on the producer, who released his own instrumental tape of hazy [...]

Today via their Facebook page, the UK group announced they had started recording a follow up to their much-praised debut.

We have started recording our second album! We have also started a blog where we will post our inspirations + pictures + favourite songs. We hope you enjoy it! Lots of Love, The xx There is an awful lot of pressure on these guys - very excited to hear the result. Here's the video for Crystalised , off their critically acclaimed debut xx .

The xx , que coronó su año siendo la banda galardonada con el Mercury Prize , tiene más motivos para celebrar a finales del 2010: la primera edición de The Tourist , un nuevo zine, estará dedicada exclusivamente a ellos. Con un prólogo de la crítica norteamericana Sasha Frere-Jones , el zine consta de 40 páginas dedicadas exclusivamente al conjunto inglés, con fotografías de la banda y letras de sus canciones escritas a mano por los cantantes Oliver Sim y Romy Madley Croft . [...]

Dear Frontier Psychiatrist, I'm trying to think of new music to play when I'm getting intimate with the lady. Marvin Gaye and Barry White just aren't getting it done anymore. Any advice? -Silent but Sexy Dear SbS, From the time of Orpheus to the time of Otis Redding, men have attempted to use sweet music to make sweet music. To quote some deaf guy , "music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." But, as you point out, not all melodies will put you in harmony [...]

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The sparse simplicity of The xx 's critically acclaimed debut, 20092s xx , belies the kind of songwriting effort it takes to write such a consistently engaging album. Unlike some of the band's London-based, indie-rock contemporaries (such as previous tour mates The Big Pink )—which hit audiences over the head with bombastic hooks—The xx lures listeners in with a laid-back subtlety that is no less effective despite being significantly more economical. It's an even more impressive feat given the fact that the album is self-produced; there's no big-name producer or other outside influence telling keyboardist Jamie Smith, [...]

The xx have won the prestigious Mercury Prize, awarded to the best British album of the past year. The album finished second on our top albums of last year, behind Passion Pit's "Manners". We've compiled a list of video clips of their unbelievable tracks. The xx - Crystalized The xx - Basic Space The xx - VCR The xx - Islands

London electro rock trio The xx have won the coveted 2010 Mercury Prize, pipping other nominees like Wild Beasts, Laura Marling , Villagers, Foals, 2003 winner Dizzee Rascal, and Mumford & Sons . Their fresh inventive eponymous album, recorded in a converted garage the size of a bathroom, produced by the band themselves, is washed over with intimate hushed and whispery vocals and samples and has been featured all over television soundtracks, commercials, and been stuck in our heads. The chief of judges Simon Frith said about the album: [...]

The xx - Mercury Music Prize Winners // The 2010 Mercury Music Prize and £20,000 loot goes to London trio with their self-titled debut album xx . Check out one of the songs ( Crystalised , above) from what now formally considered the best album released in the UK over the past year. [...]

If you follow us closely you will notice that I have been an xx fan for a while now and finally get to post one of their solo songs up here. At first they didn't impress me with stripped down songs but after several listens their self-titled debut grew on me to the point where [...]

So, there's been too many good shows the past few days and we'll have to endure at least a little bit longer. Steve and I went to see Nosaj Thing (well, we actually missed him unfortunately), jj , and the xx Saturday night at Metropolis. Steve or I will write a full review later but a few brief comments about it: -It was a bit disappointing missing Nosaj Thing, I've been reallly into his album from last year called Drift (pick it up here ) -jj was, I hate to [...]

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The XX - Crystalised (Popular Damage Assimilation) Reblogged with love from indierawk & jandro : If you haven't already started listening to The xx, DO SO RIGHT NOW. These UK youngsters are simply phenomenal. Download the Popular Damage Assimilation here . "You've applied the pressure to have me crystalised - and you've got the faith that I could bring paradise"

• The XX - Crystalised (Popular Damage Assimilation)

COVER ART FOR THE ALBUM I've gotten around listening to Pavement since 3 months ago, and this is good news to all of the group's old and new fans. The Best of Album features Gold Soundz, Stereo, Summer Babe, Range Life, Cut Your Hair, and Shady Lane that ought to help neophytes like me learn how to sing along during setbreak music. The Pavement's tours involves pretty much any festival that can afford them and the imminent repackaging of Pavement sends excited chills through my bones. All the tracks are fully remastered from [...]

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Just a reminder that The XX is touring Europe at the moment. In between the european dates they will take a swing around the world and visit Australia and Singapore. Where ever you are, you might want to go experience, or not.

Beautifully dark and melancholy from start to finish.

• 2.0 - Basic Space

The XX are of one the biggest, if not the biggest, acts to emerge from the blog-o-sphere this year. Last year we had Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes, and this year we have The XX. And while the three acts sound very different, the common thread between them, as I see it, is that they have all carved out their own very unique sound. For B.I. that sound was sort of an encompassing, straining, falsetto; for F.F. it was the big, choral harmonies; for the XX it almost seems like their trademark is the empty [...]

• The XX - Basic Space

"Crystalised" is from The XX's debut album, of which you can find endless talk and praise by looking. http://www.myspace.com/thexx http://thexx.info/