the xx

while cruising iTunes on a new music tuesday, i stumbled upon the Xx. a YOUNG (early 20's) boy/girl art school indie band from south london, the Xx deliver soft, sensual atmospheric rock on their stunning debut < i love it, in a Cocteau Twins - sorta way. from amazon: The Xx unique make-up is an inadvertent second nature marriage of 2009's urban/guitar tribes, in one corner fluttering new wave indebted reverberation, in the other, plumes of post-dubstep sub-bass and figuratively, their defining core of rich R&B vocal textures. The enveloping vocal partnership of Romy and Oliver...

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