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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The xx are an English indie rock band from Wandsworth, London, formed in 2005. The band consists of Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim, Jamie Smith, also known as Jamie xx, and formerly Baria Qureshi. They are known for their distinct and minimalist sound that blends indie rock, indie electronic, indie pop, dream pop and electro-rock and the dual vocalist setup of both Croft and Sim. Their music employs soft, echoed guitar, prominent bass, light electronic beats and ambient soundscape backgrounds.
There's a place in Dalston, in England, called LNCC, where you have to make an appointment in order to shop.
You become friends with someone when you're 16, but by the time you get to 20, you're a completely different person.
I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.
I really love that: bringing people together and feeling the love.
For me, I can sort of sit there and write something down, but I can't develop it. Because to do that, I have to sit on my own and sing. I have to be really alone to do that.
My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.
As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.
I love that people can feel the bass in their body.
When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.
I sometimes get asked, 'What's it like, being spotted?', but the truth is I don't, ever. I love that I can walk around, being private.
My guitar sound pretty much came from discovering there was reverb on my little practice amp and really loving the mood it created.
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite chic. It wasn't a goth or a social group sort of thing.
I only started singing at about 15, and it came as quite a surprise to my dad.
Always treat people the way you would like to be treated. My mum told me that, and it often comes into my mind.
Chromatics' 'Kill For Love' has probably been the record I've listened to the most.
'Angels' is about being in love.
I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn't much going on around there.
I had this all-American cheerleader girl, in Georgia or somewhere, coming up to me and asking for guest list at a show. I never thought our music would reach out to such a broad variety of people like that.
The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.
My mum died when I was 11.
Mainstream pop is a bit more introspective and emotional now, like how Adele's 'Someone Like You' is everyone's favorite song, and it's so heartbreaking.
I was a very shy kid and really into art.
I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.
You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.
I'm proud of having a girlfriend; it just doesn't have anything to do with my music.
Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It's like someone with my exact taste in music has handed them all their old vinyl.
When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.
I always wear 'Hannah Marshall', all black.
I'm happy - despite things that might have happened in my life.
I do love brash pop music. It's fun.
At a festival like Coachella, you're not necessarily playing for your fans. You're playing to some, but there is also a lot of people that have maybe heard one of your songs, but aren't quite fans yet, so you feel like you have something to prove.
Aaliyah has been an artist I've grown up with, like an older sister.