One of my recent favorite Blogs by the NyTimes, The Moment, introduced me to a new obsession I think you will enjoy, regardless your music taste- The xx. The young (they are all 20!) band of four from London successfully released an album in Europe and has recently become popular in the states as it released it's album here last month. It's difficult to put them into a genre, but their sound is very...intimate, for lack of a better word. Their voices are sweet, whimsical sounding and of course even more appealing because they grew up abroad. The four met at The Elliot School in London, known best for it's visual and performing arts, (the school that produced Hot Chip) and developed shortly after.
Though they've been classified as "dreampop" and "indie rock" among other things across the internet, it's clear that their music reaches a broad variety of genres as they list their influences on myspace as "Aaliyah to Coco Rosie, Rihanna to The Cure, Missy Elliot to Chromatics, The Kills to Ginuwine, Pixies to Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake to Tracy, and The Plastics" Check, check, check. Right down my alley.
Their newest single, Basic Space, will definitely strike your fancy...and the video, directed by up and coming director/photographer Anthony Dickenson is indeed aesthetically pleasing. The song is very thought and emotion provoking, not to mention, commercial/advertisement/soundtrack worthy?
The xx US tour launched today in New York, so catch them live when they come to Austin a week from tomorrow, the 19th, at, drumroll please... The Mohawk! Tickets are $10 in advance/$12 @ the door. Be there and obsess over their glorious fresh talent with me.
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