De repente me da la sensación de escuchar música debajo del agua, difusa, en cámara muy lenta, con sonidos opacos. Las voces son una secuencia de susurros, un dialogo intimo que de vez en vez tiene momentos de tensión y otros de romance. Me parece fantástico como logran con un esquema bastante austero que este álbum debut no suene improvisado y que al contrario se sienta que los tracks fueron cuidadosamente producidos y grabados, revisados con cariño y relamidos varias veces. Todo con un aire de inocencia y sin pretensión excesiva.
The XX son un cuarteto londinense (obvio) que ha logrado acaparar la atención de los medios con este álbum debut y que se coloca en nuevo lugar para un grupo de rock juvenil. Se olvidan del up beat y de la distorsión para meterse en un mood denso, quieto y melancólico.
Me puedo imaginar a la perfección a un chico en el tren de Londres con la mirada perdida en las luces del túnel escuchando este soundtrack. O por lo menos así lo escucho yo.
Descarga: The XX (Young Turks Records)
The xx - Basic Space
Nick just waits to fly
Easy to take
You could take me in for us
Make me a deal
A day apiece
Take it off, just stay a week
I'll take you in pieces
We can take it all apart
I've softened shipwrecks right from the start
I've been underwater
Breathin' out and in
I think I'm losin' where you end and I begin
Basic space
Openin'
Don't look away
When there's nothin'
There
I'm setting us in stone
Piece by piece before I'm alone
Airtight before we break
Keep it in
Keep us safe
This pool of boiling wax
I'm giving in that is sick
Got to fill this in
Gotta just?
Why don't we learn how to keep what I have
Preserved
Basic space
Openin'
Don't look away
When there's nothin'
There
Hot wax
Has left me with a sign
Wouldn't know if I've been left behind
Second skin
Second skin
I can let it out
I still let you in
I can let it out
I still let you in
The xx - Crystalised
You've applied the pressure
To have me crystalized
And you've got the faith
That I could bring paradise
I'll forgive and forget
Before I'm paralyzed
Do I have to keep up the pace
To keep you satisfied
Things have gotten closer to the sun
And I've done things in small doses
So don't think that I'm pushing you away
When you're the one that I've kept closest
(Ahh ahh ahh)
You don't move slow
Taking steps in my directions
The sound resounds, echo
Does it lesson your affection
No
You say I'm foolish
For pushing this aside
But burn down our home
I won't leave alive
Glaciers have melted to the sea
I wish the tide would take me over
I've been down on my knees
And you just keep on getting closer
(Ahh ahh ahh)
Glaciers have melted to the sea (Things have gotten closer to the sun)
I wish the tide would take me over (And I've done things in small doses)
I've been down onto my knees (So don't think that I'm pushing you away)
And you just keep on getting closer (When you're the one that I've kept closest)
Go slow
The Xx - Islands
I don't have to leave anymore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here
Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave
Where would I be
IF this were to go under
It's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
As if a choice I'd make
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
So now I'll never explore
