The XX

bah "its quality"

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/zdbpath/composerpix/2748.jpg

i saw some british tv actor on current tv refer to this band as "The Double Kiss". is that for real??

xp, i'm not saying it's a bad thing.. i am saying that "kind of blue" and "buddha bar XXVIII" are both effective at sinking into the background but that fact says nothing about their merits otherwise

unless we're talking about AMBIENT music

yeah people said this about Endtroducing... and Dummy, someone's on a thread right now saying this about five years of minimal, "dinner party music" as a pejorative has to be taken out and shot

Playing music during dinner parties is classic, as you'd know if you had any friends or knew how to use a knife and fork.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, December 5, 2003 2:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

so uh, how are you supposed to say their name? The ecks ecks? The double ecks?

"the ex ex"

now you can talk to your friends about them at dinner parties

prefer "eeks"

Playing music during dinner parties is classic, as you'd know if you had any friends or knew how to use a knife and fork.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, December 5, 2003 2:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

^^^amazing

Yeah where is that from, I want to feel the full effect of the zing.

I do remember that line but can't recall from where.

Moby

I don't drink 'vintage' wine, and I wouldn't say audiophilia is a benchmark at all; I just like big speakers with a big, detailed sound, and a glass of wine.

depends on your neighbours/co-habitors situation to some extent

xxpost -- Must have shamed 'Rudolf' so much he went away and never returned.

The way this provokes strong emotions and yet accusations of blandness reminds me of the Cocteau Twins in their heyday.

i don't get how calling this slick dinner party music is any more of a criticism of the xx than it would be of ryan leslie which iirc you really like LOCAL GARDA xxxx...xxp

By the way, I listened to this last night at my dinner party over large speakers and, while I swirled my vintage white Burgundy around inside my Riedel glass, I felt immensely satisfied, somehow.

Kattzheit? Do you mean Krankheit (illness)?

It's my own riff on Schiller only with 'felinity'.

I mean i hear this record at every party i go to. And it wore thin v quickly. Possibly that's cos of wherei live in London. Nothing wrong with dinner parties, the idea that dismissing dinner party music means dismissing dinner parties is moronic and evasive. My point is the record is just a bland catch all. Everyone likes it and it's a safe bet nobody they know won't.

Others may have diff experiences but I'm being honest about my own feelings on it.

Everyone I know who has heard the record is either a) on this messageboard, or b) my brother

And nobody i know likes kind of blue...plus comparing that to this is major lol

Plus re r les....people dislike rnb by default

jesus christ i wasn't comparing the double kiss to kind of blue, read the fucking post

Wait, what's wrong with 'Kind of Blue'?

BOUGIE TASTEFUL SHIT

I can't think of a word that makes me see red faster than 'bougie'. There's a goddamn 'r', bitches. If you want to use a high-falutin' furrin' (and eminently bourgeois) word, learn how to fuckin' pronounce it or be cast into the bottomless pit of cretinous, jingoist, anti-intellectual, lazy-ass hypocrites. Also, wanting to use it is totally 'bougie' (as is not wanting to use it). Marxism is for kindergartners, too, people.

I prefer the term 'burgess'. ;)

^^^putting the 'boor' back in 'bourgeois'

How city-dweller of you to say that.

bougie is AAVE

jesus christ i wasn't comparing the double kiss to kind of blue, read the fucking post

I did read it...you did compare it to kind of blue as you referenced that in your defence of this record. kind of blue may well fade into the background but I have no prob with music which is calm or not abrasively offensive. my point was music that is consensus music of a given time....and to me this record feels like little more than that. I normally would hate to say "yeah nobody cares about this record in 3 months", you know, there's nothing wrong with a brief liking for something. but doesn't anyone feel that this record is like...less than 3 months, and it's not unique in being a record you just listen to 5 times and think is good then never listen to again. I know other people are consuming music this way and albums like this basically feel like singles...I liked this well enough but it sort of amazes me that such a bland record is a hipster record...this record should be way bigger...and not a hipster record.

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Saw them live at 4pm, in sunlight, at a festival. It was bleak.

this is the biggest piece of hype garbage I've ever seen. They seemed bummed they are popular. Are they already in therapy?

ps. agree with popture, when I saw them live it was , errr unfortunate to say the least. I think they were falling asleep about as quickly as the audience was.

aw i'm happy that they got nme -- is that most recent cover? i might try & buy it

the front two look like younger versions of tracey thorn and stephin merritt.

they look like fun people

Listened to this again last night. This is wintry Sunday light-cleaning music and I do mean that as a compliment, 'cause sometimes you just need to tidy up a bit.

it's time to take out the trash

the front two look like younger versions of tracey thorn and stephin merritt.

Lad on left reminds of Robin Guthrie in his earlier years.

i saw them live and they were great.

the drums on "infinity" just scream "extended remix" to me

(apologies if there already is one)

they sound almost... air france-ish imo

YES. "Infinity" is the direction I'd like them to go in - that same intimate fragility, but bigger, grander, more dramatic. It makes me think of Julee Cruise.

Basically I feel like there should be more popular music that I can class with "Falling", "Wicked Game" and "Lily Was Here".

obviously big, emotional pay offs are not their thing but i'd love to hear those drums played out, if not fleshed out