The XX

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"

Oh, I agree - I grilled her on it and she said that's what they call them on the radio though

they play the double ex on the radio?!

yeah the tv backing music thing is getting a bit ridic.

saw them play to a gigantic crowd at a festival last weekend. people were going crazy, clapping along and singing every word like it was oasis or something. a bit incongruous but i guess they're on the way to being superstars. also they were on my ferry on the way to the festival, eating sandwiches.

what kind of sandwiches?

minimal ones

just bread

i couldn't tell but they seemed pleased with them

So wait, how do you say their name again? (Should be called The Double Cross, imo.)

ex-ex

^sb sb

whoops, that was an ex-post!

I actually like the band, just word-playin'!

Gonna start calling them the Criss Cross

my friend keeps playing this record. I like it, it's pretty.

i looked up how much they'd sold during the ilx poll or around that time, and it was very little, even tho they do seem to be superstars of indie.

They're undeniably pretty classy, but I don't find them captivating or anything. Their songs are all a bit the same.

I think they're awful, horrible, entirely untalented singers and remarkably physically ugly except for the girl who quit.

I find myself kind of admiring how retrained/consistent/"samey" the record is. I don't know any other really young bands that have made a similar choice. That's certainly a fair criticism but it is far too good to just be background music.

was struck just a few weeks ago by how sort of seductive this record is. for a long time i thought of it as chilly, which it is, but it's a sexy kind of chilly.

h8 u xx

saw them play to a gigantic crowd at a festival last weekend. people were going crazy, clapping along and singing every word like it was oasis or something. a bit incongruous but i guess they're on the way to being superstars. also they were on my ferry on the way to the festival, eating sandwiches.

― jabba hands, Friday, September 17, 2010 4:19 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

man how do you sing along to these songs?