THE XX - XX Eiko Ishibashi Implosion and its lead single

Implosion and its lead single 'Imploded Versions' are testaments to being enveloped in bass

Leona Ness

Its songs remain core fixtures of the band’s live sets

Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish

while his bandmates each belong at the top of the game in Scandinavian jazz

THE XX - XX Eiko Ishibashi Implosion and its lead singleThe xx were four precocious youngsters from South West London who provide the hushed minimal strokes of Youth Marble Giants and early Cure but through the minds of a young act obsessed with the R&B turns of Ciara and Aaliyah. They even covered Aaliyah's "Hot Like Fire" as the b side for their first single, "Crystalised" and first gained attention after recording a sensational version of Womack and Womack's "Teardrops". Having signed to XL sub label