The xx – “Angels”


Unless you’ve ignored social media all morning, you know The xx have released their first single “Angels” from their forthcoming album Coexist which will be released September 11, 2012. You can find the lyrics on their website. Like the rest of music listeners, I’m eager to hear what’ll come from The xx on their sophomore album and so far it’s sounding pretty damn sweet.


The xx’s Coexist Track List

Tracklisting:
“Angels”
“Chained”
“Fiction”
“Try”
“Reunion”
“Sunset”
“Missing”
“Tides”
“Unfold”
“Swept Away”
“Our Song”

XXYYXX – Mystify EP

I had been playing XXYYXX’s “Overdone” remix a few times a day this week waiting to hear more, so this EP’s timing is clutch. The EP itself is pretty clutch as well. In the opening track, the audio clip sounds like it’s from a ballet practice, which is an interesting audio as dialogue, but fits perfectly as a beat counter and the keyboard sounds as if it’s dancing around the voice too. “Mystify”, the title track, actually picks up the pace, incorporating more layers and harder hitting synths, giving more of a tropical vibe. “LSD Dream Theatre” and “LUV U GRL” focus on more of the post-dubstep aspects of the mixtape. They take the EP down a notch tempo-wise, but each track remains tight. “Sencha” features a soothing guitar-plucking loop, only 1:36 long, the shortest track on the EP.. Mystify is finished off with “Bill Gates”, which XXYYXX had posted to his Soundcloud a few days ago, unmastered. For the time being, I’m not sure if “Bill Gates” is the right track to close the EP with. It’s a tidy little EP, beats are layered well, good amounts of synth, definitely something worth investing in (and for $1, how could you not?). XXYYXX has been steady on releasing an EP a month for 2012, check out his Bandcamp for those.

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