. Which really came without warning. Or maybe it did considering their precautionary Xs? They’ve cocooned their vision and softly projected this into the world away from any scene. And gently and quietly is exactly how it goes. Just like the Xs that adorn their artwork and live stage, their aesthetic and musical landscape is simply black and white, emotionally, musically and artistically stripped bare.
What makes their songs so tenderly epic are the hushed duelling vocals between best friends Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim. Rather than just duets, they exist as a dialogue and dual monologues. A breathy and sighing, elegiac emotional purge of found love and lost love, inquisitively trapped between longing and an embrace. Romy and Oliver dress mainly in black, which feels more like a camouflage union to hide in the shadows with, than an expression of any gothic intent.
They have a modesty, which is often mistaken for shyness, and a sense of control and vision, which belies their age. Live, it feels colossal for such intimate music, mobiles held to the heavens twinkling like fiery torches to what will literally become torch songs.Europe then America, Europe then America. We’ve never done this before. A few days away here and there. It’s new but it’s good. I’ve never really been this tired before.
You’ve come up with something beyond your years, which isn’t meant to sound patronising, but you’d maybe expect an album like this, four albums down the line... At school I had friends that were older than me. I’ve always like the company of people who were older than me. I dunno… We definitely had a period of about a month or two where we were playing as loud as we could with loads of distortion. And then, somebody turned it off. And I don’t think it’s ever been on since. We got that all out of the way early on and I guess haven’t gone back.
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