Teenage girl blogs about music. That's all.

My favorite song (Actually, my favorite of the album changes week to week, but for today…) off of The xx’s stellar wonderful beautiful debut album “XX,” “VCR,” finally has a music video!  And it’s great!  Check it out HERE on pitchfork.tv.

Speaking of The xx, check out Sasha Frere-Jones’s piece on the band from this week’s New Yorker.  Like everything SFJ writes, it’s right on point and sums up the band brilliantly.  While I’ve never caught The xx live (Hopefully in the near future though!! Hopefully!!), my experience with The xx was pretty similar.  First I just didn’t get them and found the album boring, but per my trusted friend’s request, I listened more.  After a few rotations, it hit me.  It’s a minimalistic record where the silences carry as much weight as the notes.  As SFJ states, it’s a wonder that such a young band has mastered the art of restraint.  Check out the piece HERE.