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NotesTop 50 Songs of 2012: #15, The xx - Angels
If someone believed me, they would be as in love with you as I am.
The first time I listened to The xx’s “Coexist”, I was in downtown walking alone in pouring rain, miserable and cold. It was one of those romantic existential moments. The opening track “Angels” features as a spot-on accompaniment for such a scene, with its modest instrumentation, thick dollops of bass and heart-stopping lyrics delivered by Romy Madley Croft’s alluring whisper. As far as love songs go this year, “Angels” hit home the closest.
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The xx - Coexist
Heart-stealing duo Jamie xx and Romy Madley-Croft, turn trio, return on their sophomore LP, “Coexist”: an equally intimate, brooding, confessional listening experience as their 2009 Mercury Prize winning debut, “xx”. Albeit, “Coexist” stutters from mild consistency issues (tracks like “Chained”), the gorgeously minimalist effort offers itself as a lush extension of style and idea of “xx”; behaving as a shy love letter of a relationship profoundly built yet gradually falling apart. (8/10)
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Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Is it just me or does preppy non-american indie pop suck this year? (It’s probably just me, I might be a mere asshole) But much in the vein of dismally lackluster sophomore slumps this year from groups like The Temper Trap and Foals, Two Door Cinema Club enters the ring with an equal dose of painfully droll rock compositions, ideas and lyricism that suffices the ear as much as a napkin holds as a paperweight. Nothing offered on a record like “Beacon” could ever suffice even for the likes of contemporary pop junkies, it’s just that weak. (4/10)
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Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
“Tourist History” is a snappy pop record that throws a bit of pixie dust at your face to compensate for the fact it’s really simplistic. It’s not something you end up hating Two Door Cinema Club for, I mean, their choruses stick around your brainwaves like leeches and they wear their European presence on their sleeve; instant love for some, right? “Tourist History” falls next to the likes of Foals and Phoenix and make for great indie pop mix-tape material, but aside that notion, “Tourist History” is the ‘flavor of the week’ pop album that you’ll certainly forget about, not matter how infatuated you get. (7/10)
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