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The xx formed in 2005, when they were still in high school. They signed to the UK label Young, and put out their first album in 2009. It won the prestigious Mercury Prize, and was named one of the best albums of the year by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and more. Since then, the Guardian has named it one of the best albums of the 21st century.
Highlighted moments
I remember my first lyric was inspired by something my mum read in a paper about how you can have your ashes compressed so hard that they are turned into diamonds, which is really macabre, but that was the first lyric. You've applied the pressure to have me crystallized.
“We didn't think it was an option for Jamie to produce until we had worked with other people.”
“I was working out how to make electronic production feel live and feel organic. Trying to work out how to make every click, every rim sound slightly different like it would if you were just hitting a snare.”
“Mine and Rommie's writing was very much like a patchwork rather than, like, sat in the room together. But so many of the songs from the outside must really sound like we're singing together, you know, two parts of a love song sang at each other.”
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