Back in 2012 when The xx’s sophomore album, Coexist, came out, it went on to become the best-selling vinyl record of the year. Mind you, this was at the onset of the vinyl boon, before aging hipsters ...

Two college students’ plan for world peace usually doesn’t get much farther than the campus bar. But when it’s as catchy as a single word, “Coexist”–with the “C” in the shape of a Muslim crescent, the ...

Once, pop songs achieved ubiquity through the simple business of being played frequently on the radio. Nowadays, ubiquity can lie in the interstices, a place that rather suits the xx. Even if you ...

The focal point of The xx, on its debut as well as its new album Coexist, is the existential romance between the singers, Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft — each of whom sounds adrift in his or her ...

It’s unlikely that anyone has The xx on their gym playlist. The band’s sound is hard-wired for melancholy—evoking images of the lovelorn staring out of a café window smoking cigarettes down to their ...

On their second album, the xx face the challenge offered to all bands who emerge fully-formed, with a distinct and instantly recognisable musical aesthetic: what to do next? The London trio's answer ...