Occasionally you build an idea in your head of something that proves to be woefully inaccurate and so it was on first reading about and seeing photos of The xx. I convinced myself that they would be a garage rock band in the vein of a multitude of scene bands who wore black and had haircuts that looked difficult to maintain.
But on hearing The xx album ‘xx’ I discovered that I was very wrong.

I wholeheartedly recommend that you listen to this wonderful, minimal, brooding album that despite the use of those words has a real sense of joy and positivity to it. The tracks ‘Islands’ and ‘Infinity’ I pretty much have fallen in love with and its the first album in a long time that had got me genuinely excited about people making music again.

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