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I was reading mojo magazines britpop edition a few weeks ago around and about the same time I gave this record a spin, Now this stuff has more to do with say 4ad or something more 80s than say PARKLIFE but I say thats just the fudge, the truth is the cold center of the ice cream itself!! naw what i mean!!! If you don't let me explain. Britpop never died you see, cos it can't at least not for another hundread years or so. If you think britpop was invented in 1990 your wrong it was invented when John Lennon decided he'd be bigger than Elvis playing real american music, but brits playing blues ain't blues its POP!!! especially when they infuse that english folk and music hall thing. Back to the xx . The year is 2009 Big Brother and the new world order is in full swing War is Peace Freedom is Slavery!!! with that in mind arent these the apropriate tones for modern brit pop , FORGET artic monkeys forget Pete dohetry (he's dead right?) Remember The xx because this is a stone cold classic!!! minamal this electronic that , this is brit pop in the age of aquarius!!!

 

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I have no idea what this band sounds like, but its name reminds me of a time 20 or so years ago when my cousin, who was visiting from a porn-deprived state in the Midwest, said to me, "Let's get a dirty movie - a double triple X-er!"

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I was reading mojo magazines britpop edition a few weeks ago around and about the same time I gave this record a spin, Now this stuff has more to do with say 4ad or something more 80s than say PARKLIFE but I say thats just the fudge, the truth is the cold center of the ice cream itself!! naw what i mean!!! If you don't let me explain. Britpop never died you see, cos it can't at least not for another hundread years or so. If you think britpop was invented in 1990 your wrong it was invented when John Lennon decided he'd be bigger than Elvis playing real american music, but brits playing blues ain't blues its POP!!! especially when they infuse that english folk and music hall thing. Back to the xx . The year is 2009 Big Brother and the new world order is in full swing War is Peace Freedom is Slavery!!! with that in mind arent these the apropriate tones for modern brit pop , FORGET artic monkeys forget Pete dohetry (he's dead right?) Remember The xx because this is a stone cold classic!!! minamal this electronic that , this is brit pop in the age of aquarius!!!

 

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lmao @ that review/post...

 

wow :stunned

 

anywho, the album is very solid (wound up in my top 20 on the year) and i loved the HELL out of them live 2 weeks go. they're not much to look at/watch live, but they recreate the album very well and it's hard not to be sucked in.

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I like the album a lot, the restraint in the instrumentation is very refreshing to my ears. It's a little overhyped yeah, but go figure.

 

 

I don't understand the idea of baclash when it comes to supposed overhyped records . walk through your neighbourhood and ask every one you see

what they think of the xx and you know what they will say , well of course you do. how can something that is not even a cultural refrence be over hyped? becuz some critics like it which many did with this one. Lady Gaga is overhyped the world cup is over hyped, though i love one and sorta like the other.

 

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right , right, right, you know what im saying you know whats happening

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I don't understand the idea of baclash when it comes to supposed overhyped records . walk through your neighbourhood and ask every one you see

what they think of the xx and you know what they will say , well of course you do. how can something that is not even a cultural refrence be over hyped? becuz some critics like it which many did with this one. Lady Gaga is overhyped the world cup is over hyped, though i love one and sorta like the other.

 

First of all, it is possible for an album to be overhyped by critics and not be picked up by the mainstream. Again, to my ears the album is nothing special. The first instrumental track was intriguing and caught my attention, but the rest I just found incredibly boring (and no, Im not incapable to enjoying "quiet" music. I own more ambient and drone albums than I can count). I dont think its bad by any means and for a debut by an act as young as they are its pretty impressive. But it definitely wont make any of my year end lists.

 

And as far as the World Cup goes, 95% of the world shuts down for those games, so I would say the hype is justified. Lady Gaga is another matter.

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