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np: "Crystalised" - The xx

I haven't really had a chance to talk about this band yet, which is a shame because their debut album has certainly been one of my favorites of the last few months. Icy, cool, minimal pop with dueling male-female vocals. Lovely sounding stuff and one of those bands that is really hard to pin down in any one genre. It was announced this week that one of the original four members, keyboardist Baria Qureshi, has left the band due to exhaustion and the band will continue on as a trio. Time will tell how this will affect their sound, as I'm not sure just how much input Qureshi had in writing their tunes. Glad to see they are continuing on, I'd hate to lose such a promising young band mere months after their debut album gets released. Check out a few of the album's highlights.