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The xx - Hot Like Fire

snippets from this excellent article in The New Yorker:

The xx are, in the purest sense, a modern band: their music could not exist without the machines that make the noises and the machines that record them.

I can’t think of a working band that is as genuinely minimalist.

These are songs to be sung inches from someone’s ear, preferably with the lights off.