3. The xx - xx
"Despite the egregious youth of its creators, the principal impression of this record is neither its melancholy nor its idealism, but the perfection of its musical judgement. Though critically-feted South London four-piece The xx have released just two singles and performed only a handful of shows, they've already developed a trademark langourous understatement, professing to record only what they can reproduce live.This album successfully brokers their style into an economically luxurious, musically complex, self-titled world, more than capable of laying any remotely susceptible human flat out, dreaming." Petra Davis

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