The xx news

Photo by Charles Taylor Bergquist In addition to their summer festival tour in Europe and the UK, the xx will visit North America briefly in support of their yet-untitled sophomore record. After the tour dates, watch a recent video of the group performing a new song at London's Battersea Arts Centre last weekend. Read Laura Snapes' report from that show here . The xx: 05-29 Bordeaux, France - Le ...

The band have played five new tracks live recently.... hear them here...

The xx recently came out of hiding to perform a few shows; and they haven't wasted any time in revealing several new tunes. If this is any indication that a new album is in the works, consider us excited! During a recent performance at Chats Palace in London, the band revealed an untitled, yet short song. Check it out in the video below. 

Last night, Laura Snapes filed a report on the xx 's show at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, where they played material from their upcoming album . Now, Consequence of Sound points to video from that show of a currently untitled song, which Snapes described thusly: "Hooked around a beautiful, languid guitar slide, it's initially not wildly dissimilar to something off of Beach House 's Bloom ...

The band play a number of songs from their forthcoming album.

Unveiling material from their forthcoming second album on the final date of a three-night run , the xx performed in front of visuals resembling the inside of a plasma globe , the kind you touch in science lessons to demonstrate the flow of energy through the body. If any band is an expert in the intricacies of bodily contact, it's the xx, whose self-titled debut spent most of its running time ...

The Mercury prize winning group are set to release their second album later this year, and while they have been secretive about its sound, friends close to them say it is a natural development of their sound.

The band unveiled the untitled track at London's Chats Palace earlier this week

Photo by Charles Taylor Bergquist On Tuesday night, the xx played an intimate show at Chats Palace in London as part of their warm up dates for festival season . It's their first string of shows since they toured in support of their self-titled 2009 album . Here's a clip of the band playing a brand new track (title unknown) that'll likely appear on their upcoming album, via Consequence of Sound .

Any fears that the xx might go the full David Guetta on the London electronic pop outfit's upcoming sophomore album appear to be misplaced. In December, producer Jamie xx suggested the follow-up to the group's

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