Watch The xx Play New Song "Swept Away"

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HBnfxbVvSY]The xx - Swept Away (NEW SONG live in LA @ The Fonda 07.23.12) - YouTube[/ame]

:dance: I'm abstaining from The xx until September, though, so I won't give it a listen now.

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^Does that mean it's good?

I'm sure it is, since that was the same reaction I had :D

Oh, great then! "Coexist" is bound to be amazing.

:dance: I'm abstaining from The xx until September, though, so I won't give it a listen now.

Yup, me too!

 

Only have listened to Angels so far and that's it! :D

Amazing photos from their NY concert.

 

http://pitchfork.com/photos/66-the-xx/

New song called Chained. Absolutely love this.

 

 

 

Waaaay too short though!

Wasn't impressed on the first listen, especially not after stupefying piece of music that is "Angels". Spoiled me too much, I guess. But that was just the first listen and it's not bad at all, anyway.

I wish they stopped releasing new songs :bomb:

They're playing like 30km away from me in one hour and I won't/can't be there :bigcry:

The xx to Collaborate With BBC Orchestra

 

On September 19, the xx will collaborate with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance, the BBC reports. They'll play new arrangements of tracks from 2010's The xx and their upcoming record Coexist, as well as new, specially commissioned work. The band will work with composer Alex Baranowski, who previously worked with Underworld on music for Danny Boyle's theater production of Frankenstein.

 

The free concert will take place on the water, in the seaside resort of Bridlington in East Yorkshire, England as part of this fall's BBC Philharmonic Presents... series. It will be broadcast live on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 program.

 

 

I think this will sound bloody amazing. Hope the performance will end up on Youtube somewhere.

Wow, that might indeed end up brimming with epicness :wacky:

album leaked

:thumbsup:

 

 

happyleaks.

I like it more than I thought I would, but I'm still pretty sick of their sound...

Gah! To listen or not to listen?!?!

 

*sigh*

 

Will listen...

Anything as good as "Angels" or "Shelter"?

yep.

Listening to it now and I'm loving it so far.

 

A little bit more techno/dancy than XX but still manage to retain their sound from the first album.

 

So far Reunion is my favourite.

Listening to it now and I'm loving it so far.

 

A little bit more techno/dancy than XX but still manage to retain their sound from the first album.

 

So far Reunion is my favourite.

 

same here. reunion = <3

Listening to Reunion, right now....

I'm only on the fourth track now, but so far I really, really like Fiction.

I gave in and listened to the leak :shame:

 

It's a decent successor to their debut album, which is to say I prefer 'xx' to 'Coexist'. That's partly due to the fact that it's been months and months that I've been listening to 'xx' so of course I know the songs better whereas the new material is yet to be analysed, and because I feel like the songs in 'xx' are more versatile than the new tracks. There are some very interesting samples of sound among them, to be sure, but overall the new album fails to make me instantaneously fall in love with it, which happened with the debut. The fact that they sound all the same and are unable to produce something interesting again I dismiss in its entirety. I still haven't had enough of them.

 

"Angels" remained the strongest track on the album, followed by "Tides", "Unfold", "Swept Away". Other tracks need to grow on me.

I'm only on the fourth track now, but so far I really, really like Fiction.

 

Fiction and Reunion are highlights.

 

Not as solid as their first album, IMO.