The xx 'Basic Space' 7" has found its way onto the turntable and is rotating and gyrating slinky boy/ girl (or man/woman) vocals at me. The song is fairly minimal in its construction and centers around simple percussion and a warm melody. It's a moody tune that is really well executed. Brian has piped up that he wasn't mad keen on the first single but he's feeling this one. Lifted from their forthcoming debut album and includes a demo version of 'Blood Red Moon'. Comes in die-cut 'X' sleeve.
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What their label says...
· Taken from London quartet The xx’s forthcoming debut album, ‘Basic Space’ is set to build on the success of the band’s critically acclaimed debut single ‘Crystalised’. In addition to the lead track, the single will feature ‘Blood Red Moon (Demo)’ on the B side. · The xx are four kids who formed at London’s Elliot School in 2005, the south west comprehensive that produced the likes of dubstep enigma Burial, Hot Chip, and Four Tet’s Kieren Hebden. But alone The xx stand, not only in the singularity of their influences and sound, but in the universal resonance of their music. · Gingerly dodging the storm cloud of hype hysteria that plagues seemingly every other new buzz act of the moment, Romy Madley Croft (lead vocals, guitar), Oliver Sim (lead vocals, bass), Baria Qureshi (keyboards, guitar) and Jamie Smith (beats, samples) are edging into our hearts. Their unique make-up is a second nature marriage of 2009’s urban / guitar tribes - in one corner fluttering new wave inspired reverberation, in the other, plumes of textured, post-dubstep sub-bass and figuratively, their defining core of rich R&B vocal textures.
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Crystalised The xx 7" (vinyl), £9.99 Sorry - sold out.
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