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The XX Takes on Jools Holland

• story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

…and transforms it into a veritable bedroom, because as we learned at their debut New York show at Mercury Lounge a couple months ago, these Brits can play a sweaty sweatbox of drunken boozehounds and deeply annoying LA pseudo-hippies and it will still seem intimate. They’re performing “Islands,” the all-up-in-your-earness of their sweet-nothing vocals and minimalism is crushingly close, and the light show Jools’ techs set up for them makes it seem like they’re on a spaceship to eternal love…I am yours now… so I don’t ever have to leave is a perfect lyric, because it is basically how we feel about their music. And that is why we put them in our next issue, coming very soon. (via Theophilus)

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• posted on Oct 2, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO, Uncategorized
• tags jools holland, rock, The xx