The XX

oh wow, it's kind of embarrassing how much better Ma$e is than, like, every recently famous/popular emcee I can think of other than T.I.

hey shakira does justice to that song, good fit imo

ma$e was dope

a lot of people thought so but, as is well documented, I hate him

(...but secretly LOVE him)

just listened to Shakira's xx cover and man -- studio version ASAP plz

uh the clunky diy sleekness is their whole appeal, i don't get y anyone wants a glossed up vers.

yeah I thought the shakira version was competent but doesn't have a patch on the original imo

uh the clunky diy sleekness is their whole appeal, i don't get y anyone wants a glossed up vers.

I get that the arrangement is part of the appeal, but it's a good song apart from that, and it's fun to see songs put in different sonic contexts.

^^^

shakira's forte isn't really glossiness, "she wolf" notwithstanding.

yeah, good covers are always enjoyable. they don't take anything away from the original.

also: though it took me a while to get the gist, i eventually succumbed to the xx and love them still nearly a year later. it's been a while since i actively listened to the full album, but i'm always happy when a song pops up on random. have recently noticed a lot of ILM backlash, though, to the point where hating the xx has become a kind of punchline in itself. which strikes me as weird, cuz i don't see this as an offensively ubiquitous or vapid album. surprised that it would prove divisive.

It's one of those records that 10 albums-a-year art school punters in denim button-ups won't shut up about.

"Don't judge a band by its fans," anyone?

it's just the circle of life with ilx, like freak out about the band and record four months before it's out, then once it's out and gets popular and a good review on pitchfork, you gotta start making it a punchline for indie joeks

ppl on ILX hating an indie album for no good reason shocker

it's also a total dinner party album!

how awful

but dinner parties are great.

oh i thought you were knocking it!

yes, who could object to a dinner party.

I exclusively play Cobalt and late 90s alt rock hits when I have ppl over

no that was def a compliment. have heard it at many a dinner party and it's always been appreciated

liked this better when it was slowdive and without the shitty visual aesthetic

Naturally, the xx sound nothing like Slowdive...

why dont you make a poll about what they sound like?

sorta like a mix between opeth and medeski, martin, and wood

http://www.viewfromthe101.com/2010/02/18/like-as-slowdive-and-the-xx/
http://www.rhapsody.com/playlistcentral/playlistdetail?playlistId=ply.30551501

xpost the visual aesthetic is better than the music.

"sounds like a C86 band copping shit-tons of atmosphere from the first Burial record" LOL

Shelter (DJ Cremoso remix)

http://soundcloud.com/djcremoso/shelter-dj-cremoso-remix

sorta like a mix between opeth and medeski, martin, and wood

― it's detlef season, you schrempfs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:35 PM (3 weeks ago)

l my fucking a o @ this

i was buying some diapers and stuff at super target and this was hella cheap on "hot new artists" end cap so i bought it

now i kinda like! i don't know why! oh well, times change

play it for the babby imo

already did!

also music for airports is a good one for a crying babby

it def holds up

Other albums for "baby music" that I recommend:

Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Hair Police - Constantly Terrified
Merzbow - Music for Bondage Performance
Nadja - Bliss Torn from Emptiness
Prurient - Cocaine Death
Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind
Sunn O))) - ØØ Void
Wolf Eyes - Slicer

lol

still love this shit

total classic

Like "Islands" more than I did last year.

sorry ilxor my baby is more into john weise and yellow swans

omg congrats on your baby!

I like this too. yay new young people's music! what else do the kids like these days

I love it that I'm now clearly too old to care whether this is cool or what "type" of person is supposed to listen to it.

I feel like a lil scott seward

love this record - i just wish i didn't have to hear it as the background music to every other tv show and trailer.

I get kind of psyched about that because $$$$$ to The XX

I realised the other day that I'd never heard anyone talk about them when I heard them called 'the double ex'. I favour 'the ex ex' myself.

That's strange. I assumed they were called 'the ex ex' also. Do people really call them 'the double ex'? Is that the "official" way to say their name?

only disgusting savages call The XX "the double ex"