The debut album The xx, xx (Young Turks / XL Recordings), as the sound of young London celebrates, and for good reason: The band started making music four years ago, when its members were all aged in fact, between 16-19, sometimes even voice recordingsuntil late at night under the covers so that their parents would not have listened. "It 'funny how a snapshot frozen in time all thesefeelings," says Romy Madley Croft Eminem Songs singer and guitarist. "Our first songs were the first experience, written in love, but we had to talk inreal situations." Despite the youth of Croft and his band mates-bassist-singer Oliver Sims, guitarist, keyboardist Baria Qureshi and producer / beat-man Jamie Smith, the term "old soul" could have been invented for the XX (even if the quartet new soul ispenetrated and performs a cover Eminem Songs spectral Aaliyah "Hot Like Fire"). However, there is a sense of mystery in the way of Love Songs living Croftand Sim wend their voices whispering around each other. And while Croft admits that clothing blacks and blank stares of Eminem Songs the groupinterested in the photographs "make us look like a bunch of Goths", she says she is more of Philip Glass, Robert Smith asinfluences. "We have a lot of Rihanna Songs room to breathe, so everything is uncomfortable void," he says. "We agreed that we humans are fragile. There are definitely lovers, not fighters."
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The xx and Eminem Songs
The debut album The xx, xx (Young Turks / XL Recordings), as the sound of young London celebrates, and for good reason: The band started making music four years ago, when its members were all aged in fact, between 16-19, sometimes even voice recordingsuntil late at night under the covers so that their parents would not have listened. "It 'funny how a snapshot frozen in time all thesefeelings," says Romy Madley Croft Eminem Songs singer and guitarist. "Our first songs were the first experience, written in love, but we had to talk inreal situations." Despite the youth of Croft and his band mates-bassist-singer Oliver Sims, guitarist, keyboardist Baria Qureshi and producer / beat-man Jamie Smith, the term "old soul" could have been invented for the XX (even if the quartet new soul ispenetrated and performs a cover Eminem Songs spectral Aaliyah "Hot Like Fire"). However, there is a sense of mystery in the way of Love Songs living Croftand Sim wend their voices whispering around each other. And while Croft admits that clothing blacks and blank stares of Eminem Songs the groupinterested in the photographs "make us look like a bunch of Goths", she says she is more of Philip Glass, Robert Smith asinfluences. "We have a lot of Rihanna Songs room to breathe, so everything is uncomfortable void," he says. "We agreed that we humans are fragile. There are definitely lovers, not fighters."
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