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It marks an ambitious step up for the band as they ditched their home recordings and enlisted audio guru Matt Allison at Atlas Studios (Alkaline Trio

Beam says: “The experiments in this one were more with genre than with form

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The xx "xx" Reissues however this time around theThis British group released this debut album when they were just in their early twenties a considerable feat, given just how fully formed and polished this album is. Their influences include everything from post punk to dream pop to indie to dubstep to R&B pop, but that doesn't mean any of their songs are scattered: in fact, they're so sleek they're almost sculptural. "Intro" is a long, monochromatic symphony, and it sets the cool, evocative feel The