The xx’s self-titled debut was the kind of record that filled a void most of us didn’t know existed. Several currents of music flowed into the work of this London band to create something that felt strangely new. Singers Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim treated the pop song like a whispered secret, an achingly intimate exchange best understood in the general vicinity of a bed. And the xx foregrounded the hushed voices by process of subtraction, creating music with a daring sense of space. Under the production direction of third member Jamie Smith (now known as Jamie xx), the xx created a sound world where the simplest chord change was freighted with emotion. xx’s minimal production reacquainted listeners…(whole article…)
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