The xx: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

It s easy to think of The xx as a fashionable band: Its members have a sleek allinblack look, its typography and cover art is coolly and distinctively styled, and the group itself has been showered with validation, including Britain s 2010 Mercury Prize. But beneath all that tightly controlled imagemaking lays music that s raw and vulnerable; shy, worried tentativeness is wired into a sound that shimmers powerfully, but remains as fragile and delicate as a soap bubble. The xx s second album, Coexi