Sep 7th '10 by amrit @ 6:26pm2010/09/07
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This year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize, awarded annually by a panel of industry insiders to the UK and Ireland’s most excellent LP (or Roni Size/Reprazent’s New Forms), goes this year to the xx for their makeout masterpiece xx, and someone owes me a case of Dos Equis. Romy, Oliver, and Jamie will take home £20,000 for denying Mumford & Sons and Corinne Bailey Rae the honor, a pot to which I too would contribute on those grounds. (Others the xx kept at bay with this win include Wild Beasts, Dizzee Rascal, Foals, Villagers, and Paul Weller.) Congrats kids, if you’re looking for a night not to wear the pangs of young love and existential burden on your faces, this might just be it. You did it!
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Bestival favourites back (From Daily Echo)
BESTIVAL favourites The xx return in a UK festival exclusive for 2012. The band, who played an exceptional victory set in the Big Top just after winning the Mercury Prize in 2010, appear alongside another 2010 hit Icelandic post rock giants Sigur Ros ...
BESTIVAL favourites The xx return in a UK festival exclusive for 2012. The band, who played an exceptional victory set in the Big Top just after winning the Mercury Prize in 2010, appear alongside another 2010 hit Icelandic post rock giants Sigur Ros ...
Twin boys for ex-Jam star Weller
achieving hits such as You Do Something To Me, Wild Wood and The Changingman. His album, Wake Up The Nation, was shortlisted for the 2010 Mercury Prize but lost out to The xx.
achieving hits such as You Do Something To Me, Wild Wood and The Changingman. His album, Wake Up The Nation, was shortlisted for the 2010 Mercury Prize but lost out to The xx.
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I have their limited 12” edition (500) (released January 2010)
best album of 2009.
Booooooo!