The XX are a young trio from south-west London who have blasted into the limelight over recent months. Their dark, minimal sound is made up by vocalist and guitarist, Romy Madley Croft, Jamie Smith insists that he prefers to play an electric drumkit, and bassist and vocalist Oliver Smith.
While you sink into the album, and distract yourself by wondering which voice you are most amazed by, this band will catch you of guard, and gently creep under your skin until you won’t quite know what to do with yourself.
After the intense track ‘Crystalised’ you might also wonder if the entire album was written in some sort of drowsy euphoria, or anesthetised state.
The lyrics of ‘Basic Space’ will prove perplexing metaphors or progressions unnecessary, by just putting the most acute and passionate human emotion into simple and beautiful words, “I think I’m loosing where you end and I begin”,
‘Heart Skipped a Beat’ is the closest thing to a commercial track after appearing on an advert for the messed-up-rich-kids American drama, 90210 but as most of the songs were written when singer, Romy was just 17, its edge and impressiveness remains firmly intact.
Is this really a debut album? Are they really 20 years old? This record has left me asking questions, and after being skeptical of all the slick and stlyish marketing hype, it has left me taken aback. The rest of my life is making room for this album.
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