Xx XX Funk / Soul The band's dramatic reading of

The band's dramatic reading of Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence

like the sanguinely ecstatic "Find Me" and the swaggeringly heavy-browed "Reverend

and country titan Hank Snow ("[Now And Then There's] A Fool Such As I")

Fred Sesliano (esraj)

Track-to-track flow

Xx XX Funk / Soul The band's dramatic reading ofWhen the young South London quartet The XX burst onto the U. K. music scene with the 2009 single "Crystalised," it was already evident that the group's sleek, dystopian vision of modern soul greatly belied their still tender age (all four members were in their teens at the time). And despite the group's confident cobbling together of influences as far a field as contemporary and classic R&B (Aaliyah, Bobby Womack), atmospheric post punk (Young Marble