The XX

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?

By vocalising the words to the songs at the same time as the people on stage, I’ll warrant

that's...that's insane

What's the consensus on the dude's voice? I mean obv it's not good in any conventional sense, but still I quite like it. He makes me think of a reedier version of the Junior Boys dude - another non-traditional "good voice"

I think it works really well with the songs.

this is the weirdest album to be massively popular in some time, to me.

The music itself isn't weird, though. And it's not too odd that their knack for the simple + subtle would catch on right now.

I don't really think it's THAT weird; what's funny is the disconnect between the sheer amount of critical adulation and the lukewarm hemming and hawing that happens whenever any of these critics try to explain what exactly they like about it.

It's the cleanness of the arrangements. This band uses musical space better than any other popular band out there at the moment. Also they are excellent at fitting lyrics into their framework; tracks like "Shelter" are really stunning because of both the simplicity in musical arrangement and that fucking soul-crushing chorus.

Sometimes I wish both of them were stronger singers but the dangers I'd that bigger, more assured voices might overbalance the backing music and not have the same tense interplay.

Grr stupid phone

danger is

i love their voices. for me it's a large part of the appeal.