“Front page photo by Jamie-James Medina
On the surface, the first single from the xx's forthcoming album, Coexist, sounds very much like an xx song-- a skeletal guitar line, Romy Madley Croft's intimate voice at the front of the track like a pair of lips whispering into someone's ear, and lots of hollow space surrounding to add intimacy. Then, something surprising happens: about a minute in, some u”