The XX

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

maybe by the 250th time a variation of that criticism is posted it'll actually make sense

my 17 y/o cousin says that it's their fave right now, evidently not early adopters

clearly it works well in that context

there are a few good songs on it for sure

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/thexx452____.jpg

does their dj booth remind others of x factor or britains got talent's judging panel booths?

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix//2008/04_02/JudgesITV_468x282.jpg

thread is tl;dr but I really like the album after expecting to hate it from the youtubes. on good headphones the album sounds really spacious, and they do a good job of varying the melodies just enough to keep it poppy without making it too overt.

has this been mentioned yet?

http://www.myspace.com/theootheoo

Japanese tribute band: The OO

the u_u

was expecting the revive to be for the biggie-xx mashups

post

my new project, Freon Indian, will be putting out its debut record, "Psychotic Spasms," this summer

my other new project, The zzzzzzzzz, will be putting out its debut record, "zzzzzzzzz," this fall

the songwriting on this album is a lot like when teenagers learn to play guitar and everything they write sounds jack johnson. still good on the whole, but the production and aesthetic carry it so so so so far.

http://waitwhatmusic.com/files/notoriousxx.html -- only you can't get it anymore. i recommend you investigate looking for it via the rapidshare search engine of yr choice : |

http://soundcloud.com/wait-what/sets/the-notorious-xx

or do that

Young and modern: Introducing the xx - CNN.com

despite the fact that goldenvoice, who are truly, truly terrible people to the core all the way down to the their awful listladies (pathetic, pathetic, pathetic... i tried to explain to them very carefully a situation i had as a member of the press, but their list lady was such a, dare i say, awful person, that it made me think carefully enough not to let it effect my concert going experience... fuck it, goldenvoice is such a shit company, i don't give a fuck, someone needs to say something... i felt unwelcome and like I was the bad person... is there a thread for bad goldenvoice experiences) the xx were ok tonight. The xx were, ok, even though i missed half the show because of goldenvoice. the xx were... i wanted them to be good, except goldenvoice made me so mad, they really ruined my night. blah. goldenvoice sux. can we make this thread about how shit goldenvoice is, because they suck. ask me about it, i will elaborate. ad nauseum. damn. golden voice. sux.

that is my xx live review.

but they have nice fog and stuff, the xx do. and catchy jingles. wish i wasn't so put off by the hectic reception i got despite it being a simple case of having a different photographer with me. else i'd actually have been able to listen and absorb the music, which i definitely tried to do. by the end of the show, the xx sounded quite good. like the semi-indiepop band they are. as if they were trying to hide from their young marble giants influences with thick chunks of pains of being pure at heart. or something. i don't know cuz i didn't see the whole show.

wtf r u talking abt?

The xx were good.

What happened?

I went to see The xx, posted to ilx, and then got drunk, in that order.

wait waht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8CoijUMWs4

Shakira covers song by someone else HOW DARE SHE