The xx – Basic Space
Note: The xx, sounding better than they look.
It took us a while to come around to the sound of South London foursome The xx. We listened to their greyish pop romp Crystalised when everyone was crazy for it a few months ago, but we just didn’t love it. Last week, though, we grabbed their debut album “xx” (it dropped mid-August in the UK) and we’ve been spinning it since. With a similar aesthetic to Bat For Lashes, The xx make soft, bleak tunes with a real pop/R&B sensibility (they do, after all, list their influences as Rihanna, Aaliyah, and Missy). One of our favorite tracks on the album is Basic Space, also their new single – while it isn’t quite the hipster anthem Stillness Is The Move was, it certainly works with the same off-kilter-melodies and mesmerizing female vocals.
Grab their debut album when it drops in the US on October 20th.
Check out the video for Basic Space below, it reminds us a bit of Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead video.
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