The XX

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.

sim's voice is pretty bad and without compensation in terms of 'endearingly amateurish' or such apologetics

romy's voice is alright tho

didn't know about this...COLD innit, wonder what was the reason;

Second guitarist and keyboardist Qureshi is now absent from the group. Some reports claimed exhaustion was the culprit, but Sim said he doesn't know where those rumors came from.

"It was a decision that the three of us [Sim, Croft and Smith] made; it wasn't a decision that Baria made," he said. "I think, like a divorce, you need a period where you just kind of let each other breathe."

How old is this kid that knows about divorce?

parents?

or maybe she's seen kramer versus kramer

lots of kids know about divorce. my biological folks were done pretty much as early as I remember.

that said, there's a lot that's subtly nonsensical about that excerpt.

Trotsky is now absent from the group. Some reports claimed exhaustion was the culprit, but Zinoviev said he doesn't know where those rumors came from.

"It was a decision that the three of us [Zinoviev, Stalin and Kamenev] made; it wasn't a decision that Leon made," he said. "I think, like a divorce, you need a period where you just kind of let each other breathe."

http://twitter.com/bariaq/status/11287942484

kicked out by txt? you mean they just texted her and said 'you are too pretty to be in XX'?

kids today

u r 2 priT 2 b in xx

xxx
the xx

lol

The XX and OOIOO should play together. I would buy the poster.

Getting X'ed from XX, that's quite funny. There is a reason why there are only two X in XX, don't you think?

The XX and OOIOO should play together. I would buy the poster.

Ideally a cover of XXXO.

The XX and OOIOO present Elliott Smith's XO at the OX in Philly

o_0

HI DERE otm. the negative space, the spaciousness. love how huge the drums / handclaps sound on the intro track, for example.

I mean, I would pick this 100/100 over sleigh bells.

me 2

when i initially heard the album i appreciated these guys for their simple, elegant and subtly involving music, but the hype has just been a bit silly and contorting. that said, i can definitely see why they have a fairly broad appeal. once the early birds had their fill, there was something in there for coffee shop owners and dinner part aficionados alike.

coooooooooold

dang