The xx

The xx is a three-headed English indie band, formed in Wandsworth, London in 2005. They released their debut album, xx, in August 2009, that high in many "best of 2009" lists stood, including on the first place of The Guardian and silver on the list of NME. In 2010 they won the Mercury Music Prize for their debut album. The second album Coexist,, was released on 10 september 2012.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == The band existed until november 2009 from four members around the age of 20 years: Romy Madley Croft, Baria Qureshi. Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith. Qureshi left the band In november 2009. [1]  The band members had met at Elliot School in London, where also other famous artists including Hot Chip, Burial and Four Tet at school have been sitting. [2]
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 3 external links
 * 4 References

The band's debut album, xx, was well received and got among other things the Universal acclaim rating (universal acclaim) on Metacritic[3]  and got a high listing in the Best of the year-list of Rolling Stone (ninth place) and NME (second). [4]  [5]  the band was known for a high listing in the Future 50 list of the British music magazine NME and positive reviews at websites like Pitchfork. The self-titled debut album by the band was released on 17 August 2009 at Young Turk Records. Crystalised the single of the debut album was a week long ' Single of the week ' on iTunes. The band was nominated for "best British album", "best British breakthrough" and "best British band" at theBrit Awards on February 15, 2011 's that were held in the O2  Arena in London, but they won in no category.

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