{"id":840,"date":"2012-09-14T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/?p=840"},"modified":"2012-09-14T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:21:18","slug":"the-xx-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/09\/14\/the-xx-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"The xx \u2013 Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very minimal, sleepy and dreamy. Hope you enjoy! If not, leave. No DON&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The xx - Angels (Official Audio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_nW5AF0m9Zw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the album: Coexist (2012)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/nodatatv.auburn.feralhosting.com\/images\/\/2012\/08\/5fyyH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Review:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>The Mercury Prize-winning London band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/114219233\/the-xx\">The xx<\/a> stands out for many superficial reasons, from its sleek Goth look to concerts that crank up the lightshows and smoke machines. But for all its efforts to enshroud itself in otherworldly mystery, The xx\u2019s great gift lies in musical restraint; in a willingness to let clean guitar lines hang in midair, or to draw all attention toward words left unsweetened by production effects. The result may be stylishly moody, but it\u2019s also fearless.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone expecting a dense pop production won\u2019t find it in \u201cAngels,\u201d a ballad which feels a bit like an introduction to a more lavish song; if past hits like \u201cCrystalised\u201d were spare, then \u201cAngels\u201d is positively barren. Opening, characteristically enough, with a clean but woozy guitar, the new song doesn\u2019t get much more bombastic from there: A few snare taps and a low rumble join the most elemental guitar lines as the few adornments for Romy Madley Croft\u2019s naked expressions of devotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou move through the room, like breathing was easy,\u201d she sings, adding, \u201cIf someone believed me, they would be as in love with you as I am.\u201d A gentle love song made all the more disarming for its simplicity, \u201cAngels\u201d ratchets up the tension using the fewest possible ingredients<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thexx.info\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very minimal, sleepy and dreamy. Hope you enjoy! If not, leave. No DON&#8217;t! From the album: Coexist (2012) Review: The Mercury Prize-winning London band The xx stands out for many superficial reasons, from its sleek Goth look to concerts that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2012\/09\/14\/the-xx-angels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,19,21,29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-pop","category-dream-pop","category-electro-pop","category-experimental-pop","category-female-vocalist","category-indie-pop","category-new-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}