The Guardian First Album award winner: the xx

It was unassuming, understated and introverted – but these south Londoners' debut album still made more impact than any other in 2009By any standards, the xx's eponymous debut, winner of the 2009 Guardian First Album award, was a record with unassuming beginnings. So unassuming, in fact, that at least one member of the band seems to have been slightly startled that their label asked them to make an album at all. "I suppose I might have been naive really," says singer Romy Madley Croft, cr...

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