This week's new live music

The xx, On tourA lot of groups talk about going back to basics, but the achievement of this London band was to purge their sound of superfluous elements before they recorded a note. The vocals are allowed to morosely intone tales of emotional drama and when their guitar parts come in, they do so as a welcome ray of sunlight in the band's otherwise dark world. Coexist, the follow-up to 2009's Mercury-winning debut, ratchets up the intensity, while still keeping their focus. Over the last three ye...

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