L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The lead single with the prominent Hall & Oates sample. The music video set at an underage dance party. The publicity photos that suggest a sunny Netflix reboot of “Three’s Company.” Everything the xx has revealed in the run-up to ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The lead single with the prominent Hall & Oates sample. The music video set at an underage dance party. The publicity photos that suggest a sunny Netflix reboot of “Three’s Company.” Everything the xx has revealed in the run-up to ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Get your xx tixx early. Continue reading… more info

Consequence of Sound — Plus: Lorde, Chance the Rapper, The xx, Flume, Tegan & Sara, Future Islands, and more. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The lineup also includes Future Islands, Tegan & Sara, Car Seat Headrest, Michael Kiwanuka, Margo Price, The Front Bottoms, Kevin Morby, Noname, and more. Continue reading… more info

Consequence of Sound — The Shins, Cage the Elephant, Pixies, Wolf Parade, FIDLAR, and Cloud Nothings also playing the Atlanta festival. more info

DrownedInSound — Still very much an xx album more info

Yahoo! Music — Get details on the coming year's most-anticipated albums, including releases from Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Jesus and Mary Chain, Lorde, The National, Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Slowdive, Beck, The xx, Grandaddy, The Magnetic Fields, and many ... more info

Stereogum — I once had a college professor who gave a whole class on how important the opening sentence of a novel is. A great opening line works like a fishhook, and also like a thrown gauntlet. It pulls you immediately into the story, ideally, but it can also ... more info

Consequence of Sound — On their third effort, the revamped London trio trades awkwardness and anxiety for ambition. more info