The XX

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

the last time i remember being as frustrated by there being no big pay off in a song that i love is in lcd's "time to get away" -- it took me forever to get used to the fact that the guitar line never builds to anything.

"Infinity" is the direction I'd like them to go in - that same intimate fragility, but bigger, grander, more dramatic.

Cosign.

"Intro" was used in an Olympic ad, in Canada at least, that featured a speed skater - was only half paying attention, tbh. Weird moment.

because of the juxtaposition of the music against speed skating, or just obscure music showing up in unexpected places? because i've given up on feeling surprised about the latter, it happens so frequently.

yeah i saw that same ad too it was weird to see/hear -- i think it was motorolla

hahaha it just came on O_O

the song sounds great

oh at&t

I guess the album will eventually get played 94/7 in starbuckborders and grey's anatomy episodes but right now I'm into it yes

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 2:05 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

just heard them on grey's anatomy last week lol

ka-ching!

Kudos to them for dolla dolla bill y'all

Like this band a lot, great live too. The xx have done a few remixes in their time and always add something special.

Check this one out:

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/track-of-the-day-1211-florence-the-machine

They play backing to Florence And The Machine on their version of 'You've Got The Love'.

So what's up with this Blue Nile remix then? Any good?

The Amazon preview sounds good, might buy it if I wasn't at work:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islands-The-Blue-Nile-Remix/dp/B0032JN74W

Check this one out:

Yes, because we haven't already discussed the Florence remix to death in this very thread - You've Got the Love. Nor did it place about halfway up ILM's Tracks of 2009 Poll. *sigh*

why so rude?

not everyone scours every thread, follows polls, or has hung around here for ages.

Mmph. I dunno. My bad. Sorry dude.

The Blue Nile Remix is floating around...it's interesting, but I'm not sure if it gels with their overall vibe? There's a sampled harp bit that just sort of hangs there for the beginning of the mix - halfway through, once other layers get thrown on, it develops a really nice fragile groove, but the first chunk still sounds sort of awkward to my ears.

The Delorean Remix, otoh, sounds a bit as if you layered the vocals from "Islands" atop the backing track from "Daniel" by Bat for Lashes.

(Will make honest effort to be less flip.)

wd rather hear xx remix the blue nile than vice versa

^^ i'd rather listen to an xx remix of anything than a remix of xx. it's a record which has such a controlled and uniform ascetic that it almost seems pointless to re-imagine it into other genres. some of the remixes are great, but i can't think of one which has eclipsed an original - at least for me.

but that renaissance man remix of the florence and the machine remix is hella rad.

not everyone scours every thread, follows polls, or has hung around here for ages.

the discussion is in THIS ACTUAL THREAD - if someone doesn't make the effort to read, or at least do a cursory ctrl+f on, the thread they're posting on, that is rudeness in itself - it's basically saying "what all of you have been saying about this band isn't worth reading, or even scanning to see if we may possibly have heard of a much-talked-about and pretty old remix" - and as such deserves only to be met w/rudeness in return

but this thread is 712 messages long and most of them are hidden by default...

ctrl-f of "florence" yielded 6 results before the most recent post, just saying

comparing a band that write drum machine patterns and skeletal guitar parts to fucking kind of blue gtfo

getting self-righteous about people scanning over ilm posts is nagl

tevs

It finally clicked somehow. I was playing Crystalised and Basic Space quite a bit and gradually I've been listening to the rest of the album. I love the vocals so much. The mumbling. The fact that it goes nowhere. Some sort of post-coital dreamworld. Yum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZuPkTEMa1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Uol7t35kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPT1pxAbPW0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUeIqeZn0Y

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=45&cols=36&id=VXS3n94XPjI%20%20&startZoom=1

plax, that first one is fucking choice

my favorite song from this record gets a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI2eO_mNM88

my favorite too!

Don't know where this photo came from but I like it:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4425816124_acf6629633.jpg

the matthew dear remix of that is kinda good

what an awesome looking band making such shit music

^^^love this guy

vcr is xx at their most fey which is a bad thing imo

this is sixth form common room music