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the xx - xx
One of the stranger press campaigns in recent years has found this lot's high school being name-dropped in every single review of their work. Not one to buck a trend, here's my contribution to the art of paraphrasing a press release: the XX are a quartet who got together at London's Elliot School back in 2005, the very institution that gave rise to those other great hype-vessels, Burial, Four Tet and Hot Chip. Notably, The XX sound nothing like any of those acts - and nor for that matter do those acts really sound anything like each other - but it's a pattern that's conducive to you possibly thinking there might be something a bit special in the school milk round those parts. After an 'Intro' that makes them sound like a Make Mine Music band, 'VCR' and 'Crystalised' properly introduce this record's stripped, icy aesthetic. These tracks build up to XX's first real peak: 'Islands' condenses this young band's art very nicely, encapsulating the chic sparseness of their guitars vs. MPC aesthetic, bringing their sound in from the cold and fully embracing the power of pop. Part of the album's success as a flowing body of work comes from its dalliances with pace-breaking tracks like 'Fantasy', which hops on the current trend for heavy-duty sidechained compression antics and lays down a throb of soaring ambience that cuts the record in half, setting up the echoing guitars and flotation dynamics of 'Shelter' before the band's calling card 'Basic Space' (held off until track 8) rears its head and reminds you what this lot are capable of at the top of their form. It's a sleek and sultry piece of stealth-pop minimalism that thrives on the boy-girl duet dynamics of vocalists Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim. One of the year's more understated buzz-band debuts, XX comes with a hearty recommendation.
4AD
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Deerhunter's Bradford Cox in solo mode, with guest spots from Panda Bear and Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab
Christmas, Thanks For Nothing EP
Moshi Moshi Records
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Slow Club offering new songs for the Yuletide canon alongside well-worn classics.
Rough Trade
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The long-awaited follow up to the Mercury Prize-winning I Am A Bird Now
Beggars Banquet
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Monika Enterprise
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The girls enlisting the likes of J Mascis, Thurston Moore and Jon Spencer for a frenzy of 50's rockabilly pop!
The Ultimate Rockin' Halloween Party - American Horror Songs 1930s - 1950s
Viper
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Superb spooky rock & roll, rhythm & blues and doo-wop from Viper
Young Turks
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Very possibly the best track from their heavily praised eponymous debut.
Crystalised Remixes (Dark Sky Mix)
Young Turks
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Dancefloor friendly revisions of 'Crystalised' from The XX's award winning debut album.
Young Turks
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Four Tet drops a lithe, discofied version of 'VCR'...
Islands (Untold / Falty DL / Nosaj Thing Mixes)
Young Turks
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EL GUINCHO / BASS CLEF / PRINS THOMAS
Antillas (Bass Clef / Prins Thomas Mixes)
Young Turks
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Young Turks
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A shot of poppy Afro-Latin sunshine lifted from Pablo Díaz-Reixa's third album 'Pop Negro'.
Young Turks
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First taster for Chairlift's second album, due out in early 2012.
Young Turks
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Morgan Zarate of Spacek and Hyperdub fame returns as Theshining alongside collaborator Acyde.
Young Turks
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Ace remixes of Creep's Romy-from-The xx-starring 'Days' by Drop The Lime, John Roberts and Soul Clap.
FLAC Download // £8.99Young Turks
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Remixer of choice for everyone from Blue Daisy to Teengirl Fantasy links with Glasser for a strong debut.
Young Turks
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SBTRKT is back on Young Turks with a spruce, steppin’ house groover with vocals from Sampha.
Young Turks
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A sublimely tender one-off collaboration from SBTRKT collaborators Jessie Ware and Sampha.
Type Recordings
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A genius mix of vocal pop, Gamelan, drones and incredible songs from Fred Thomas.
XL
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A freakishly brilliant Geoff Barrow-assisted sophomore album from garage goths The Horrors
4AD
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An outstanding and generally immense new album from critically lauded US rockers The National
STRANGE ATTRACTORS
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Minimalist improvisations and luscious real-time field recordings from the Jewelled Antler quartet
Kranky
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Gorgeous debut from Felix, featuring members of Stars of The Lid.
Darla
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A great new full-length from Glen Johnson and co. on the Darla label
