The xx
Basic Space

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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.