Dollars to Pounds: The xx
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Every week our new UK columnist Scott Wright gives you the latest and greatest in music from across the pond. This week he’s sitting down with The xx, as well as offering up an exclusive video and mp3 of their single “Crystalised.”
Download: The xx, “Crystalised”
I haven’t held it up to a mirror yet, but the new video for “Crystalised” by The xx seems to confirm they are a quartet of good looking young people from south west London and not vampires. Oliver, Romy, Baria and Jamie have an awesome new LP out soon, it sounds like The Cure produced by Jam & Lewis and will probably usurp Burial’s Untrue as the album everyone says they listen to on the night bus home (when really they listen to Beyonce, like me). Spookily, The xx went to the same school as Burial (the one whose alumni reads like a wine bar playlist—Hot Chip, Four Tet, Adem, the Maccabees…), and they’ve covered Aaliyah, who everyone knows was queen of the vampires (in a film). I spoke to Oliver and Romy about lots of things, but mainly the undead and R&B.
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posted on Apr 28, 2009 in DOLLARS TO POUNDS tags electronic/dance, exclusive video, freeload, rock, The xx
