The xx: 'We're keen not to be … flash'

They've gone from playing in a sandpit together as kids to producing the most critically acclaimed album of 2009. Alexis Petridis meets the xx, the band quietly taking over the worldThe band behind 2009's most critically acclaimed album sit huddled around a small table in a venue in Liverpool. Barely into their 20s, softly spoken, dressed head-to-toe in black, not big on eye contact, the three members of the xx – singer and guitarist Romy Madley Croft, bassist and vocalist Oliver Sim and...

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