xx Turns 10
(WorldNews Music)

The xx came out of nowhere, and suddenly they had been around forever. The band’s rise happened in a summer, when their debut album came out 10 years ago today. By the fall, they were playing packed shows Stateside; a couple months after that they soundtracked an Olympics commercial that was truly inescapable; and two years later there were entire lists dedicated to the best xx covers, from musicians throwing their hat into the ring in an attempt to pay tribute to a young band that already felt like a legacy act. Their fast ascension was a surprisingly long process. Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim, who had known each other since they were practically babies, realized around 14 or 15...