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Pure garbage, this is like something AI would make as music.
Bland, tedious yawnfest
So boring. Honestly. Unlistenable in places.
In the spirit of the 2010s, another terrible album in which every song basic sounds the same with sub-par lyrics. Favorite Track: "Performance"(the only performance I was interested in).
Yes ok
I hadn't realized albums were now available in those red quarter vending machines at the grocery store.
Another British group that nobody outside of the UK has ever heard of. They need to get the vast majority of these groups off of this list. Their one bigger song (Intro), from a different album mind you, is mostly known for being backing music on bad tiktok videos and commercials. The music isn't bad, it's just not memorable. I would classify it as throw away stuff that nobody will remember next year. Definitely not an album I "need" to listen to.
From the first note, no. This album shouldn't be on here. The first one, xx, was a masterpiece. Captured everyone. Absolutely should be one of the 1001 best albums of all time. Not this. I really think whoever curated this list is just a single person and couldnt possibly explore that many different artists. So, they found the next best records from bands that put out phenomenal records and included that. In some cases it works. This isn't one of those cases. It's fine but not one of the 1001 best
Typisch späte 2010er Musik. Diese Beats und Sounds Irgendwie alles gleich, bis auf ein paar Songs die aber auch nur stark beginnen und dann stark nachlassen. Würde ich aller höchstens kurz im Hintergrund hören. Call&response als Merkmal, reicht aber nicht
so bad so not even funny so bad
No chance for me on this I tried it and played the whole album but the music wasn't my taste or even close to it.
Hard pass
This is just unpleasant and not enjoyable to me. The only tracks that I found myself enjoying, I took a look and saw they were starred on Apple Music, so they are obviously the good tracks. Not sure if they were singles or big or whatever. But man this isn't it.
niby xx a jednak jest to grupa trzy osobowa tworzaca muzyke taneczno popowa, o ile elektroniczne brzmienie okraszone smyczkami na niektorych utworach nie jest zle jako instrumental, tak polaczenie go z dwoma wokalami, meskim i zenskim na najbardziej generycznych lirykach jakie czlowiek moglby uslyszec daje to typowy album popowy z lat 2k1x, rocznik tego nagrania to 2017, mialem juz wczesniej na plejke lofikowej traka z ich poprzdniej plyty, ale byl to instrumental, a tutaj nawet nie ma jednego instrumentalnego kawalka, wiec nawet nie mam jakiego utworu zgarnac na pamiatke, raczej nie bede go zbyt dlugo trzymal w pamieci
i did not enjoy it
Ugh..
I do not like this
i hope no one saw me listening to this.
I'm not sure this is an Album I Must Listen To Before I Die. No hooks. Has the personality of an unseasoned overcooked chicken breast. Pop music inspired by spa instrumentals and white people megachurch vocals. Listen to these track titles. DANGEROUS, SAY SOMETHING LOVING, LIPS, A VIOLENT NOISE, PERFORMANCE, REPLICA, BRAVE FOR YOU, ON HOLD, I DARE YOU, TEST ME. I feel like I'm ready a tweenaged girl's diary. Jamie XX early shit, or XX's early shit atleast had some bangers. Not my bag, but not a bad bag. This bag is awful. 1/5 bad bags.
Can’t hang
music you’d listen to in the background while you’re doing something. sounds like copyright free music, but that being said, doesn’t mean it’s bad.
1 - boring
Nearly unlistenable cliched low effort garbage. Sleepier than a teenage boy at 9 in the morning.
Beeeem chatinho. Riachuelo-Core total. Entediante. Quase dormi ouvindo. Nada acontece, feijoada. Fresco pra caramba. 1.5/5
I like their other album better
l’ve never understood the appeal of The xx and now I think I’m realizing that I kind of hate their voices together. The songs are probably fine, but not like this. I’m actually surprised that I couldn’t stand this, but I despised everything about it.
Early on in the challenge I was fairly conservative with ratings and wouldn't really use the full scale. I felt I'd done this album an injustice, and I was very pleased to find out that it's possible to edit ratings. Finally, I can give this album the review it deserves. Godawful boring shite. It shouldn't be a mile within this list. It's easily the worst album I've heard for this challenge, and quite possibly the worst I've heard ever. There's not a hint of passion in this. God I hate this.
I gave up half way through and decided to put on some actually decent music (Bastro).
I really had a hard time staying awake through this one!
1.5
no middle school nostalgia for this one
Just awful. Reverb-heavy, sequenced drums, synthy, clean guitar instrumentation, with the breathy bright clean vocals. Terrible naive lyrics, the whole album seemingly about a relationship? Awful cringey rhymes, like written by a child. It's like Ed Sheeran's Shape of You but a whole album and worse. 1 star Best track - Dangerous/Replica
1.5
Really? Like I know 1001 is a lot but there's some incredible albums left off this list but we all have to be subjected to this cuz... idk whoever made this list felt like current music was underrepresented? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974.
Yet another album with few redeeming features. Why is it on this list ? I persevered with it but Performance was the only track worth listening to.
The Good: Who doesn’t like a little x-rating? The Bad: It doesn’t refer to that kind of x-rating… The Ugly: Me all ready… WTF? Do we get a medal when we are done? My respect for those who’ve managed to finish this list grows on a daily basis, as I am starting to lose interest on a daily basis when I realize that I am still not at the 1/3rd mark. Yet, then again, this does give great testimony that music is really important to us, as it controls our mood, our outlook on the day, and our general impulses to shout at a computer screen when another shit album is unveiled… I had heard their most popular tune pass on the radio… this was, obviously, a while ago, as I haven’t really been listening to the radio in years; thanks to bluetooth connection, and/or android auto in the cars. No wonder there is a generation of youths walking around all gloom and doom, not seeing that there is a future out there, or wondering if they will ever get lucky? The xx see them… so they say. I wonder if they will see this 1* rating?
My heart sank when I saw another album from this lame band on the list. Just awful. Singing and playing both sound amateur. No life to the music. They're quite recent to...what have they influenced??? I cannot for the life of me figure out why they are on the list at all, and certainly not twice.
It sounds like what you would hear when watching a Hallmark movie where the main characters are in a band, so they have original music created for the movie and everyone acts like they are the most talented band ever, but we as the audience have to suspend disbelief for the sake of the storyline because the music is objectively bad.
I hated this and couldn't be bothered to find out why.
Absolutely dreadful that. Contemporary dreary indie pop at its worst. Come on XX at least sound interested when you’re singing it, and/or do SOMETHING musically interesting! Sooooo boring.
It wasn't unpleasant, but that's about as positive a review as I can give this album. The music components were almost something, but only almost. The real issue is when the most boring voices on earth started singing. That killed any possible vibe that the music might have been trying for.
Eh?
Yeah.... No, I will never listen to this album ever again
And I hated it. Couldn’t listen to the whole thing. It sounds like a bunch of overproduced garbage.
Nope
no thanks
Songs i knew: 0 Songs i like: you've had your fun koffo, now give us the good stuff The whole album is just one continuous blurb, hard to tell when one song stops and the next starts. I assume this album was the end for the xx. I remember enjoying the first album at the time because it was something different, their sound is just tired though at this point and I didn't enjoy any of it. I was today years old though when I found out that Jamie xx is Jamie from the xx though. Everyday is a school day. Mid 1.
I always liked Jamie xx but struggled with his band as I find the vocals quite insipid and irritating but I'm looking forward to hearing a contemporary album on here. As I expected, this is more of the same. Great production and I really like the beats that Jamie comes up with, just can't stand the whiny posh c*nts moaning about some Hackney fuckboi/girl who saw you coming a mile off. It's all very posh kids move East to be edgy but know they can retire back to Putney if it all gets a bit much. Bet Romy and the other one studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College. Safari supper-small plates-dinner party background music for twats. Let's drink rose on London Fields in the sun and be insufferable. Everything But the Girl for the fixie-bike-finger-moustache generation. Highlights: Dangerous and On Hold had good beats and felt closest to Jamie xx's In Colour which is ace. Enjoyed the Hall & Oates sample in the latter. Let down by these tossers singing though. Lowlights: Everything else. Performance, Replica and Brave For You I found particularly grating. Shite.
The first couple of tracks were just boring, but not terrible. I thought the album would be one of those boring-but-not-overly-shit albums I've had every now again. I was very wrong. The vocals make me want to crawl out of my skin. It's the epitome of the shit music that's being released recently. It doesn't have it's intended calming effect due to how bad it is Standout shit tracks: • A Violent Noise • Performance • On Hold
Bit poppy for me
Meh
Boring, heard it before but better somewhere else.
I could have died without listening to this one
pass
I was bracing myself to be very bored by the end of the first 2 songs... but 'Lips' is brooding, catchy, nice rhythm and guitar effects. Apart from that song, it can all be a bit predictable/uninteresting... without being offensive. Overall, there's just not enough of interest to the music. 'Performance' should be good, it has potential, but it's just a bit boring and doesn't resonate, somehow.
OK, you might see me, and I appreciate that. But did you need to make a whole album about it? I don't quite see the point.
This is an insanely boring album - the songwriting is subpar at best and all of the songs sound the same. The vocals are grating also. This feels like an album added to the list because this is what the curators thought would stand the test of time, but it didn’t even stand the test of 2018. PS Dangerous reminds me of my boyfriend being on fifa for hours 😀 BORING so glad those days are over
So boring
Boring AF
Poppy Electro. Not worthy of the top 1001. Unoriginal and generic. Devoid of any spark and not even worthy of the Semi-Finals of the Eurovison song contest entry level.
Does nothing for me, sigh oh well 1 Star
Couldn't get past track 2.
Nope
Goddamn this album sucks. Trash. Reall really some of the worst songs I’ve ever heard.
This is an utterly forgettable album with zero definition. There's nothing to see here. Move on to the next.
alte nomel the xx eigentlich gkb (garkeinbock) oke erste song tönt etz no recht nice. ok syke hasses. aso hasses hani gest liecht atrunke bim dur rom schlendere gschriebe. vlt chli übertriebe, aber s isch wüüürkli nöd miis. say something loving het etz no cooli sphärischi sounds. aber d art wies d lyrics überebringed findi chli pathetisch. und s gfallt mer au nöd meega wie ihri beide stimme zeme töned. lips findi etz au eher lame. a violent noise macht seeehr wenig mit mir. s wird sochli EDM-mässig zum teil findi sehr weird. und denn machts immer wieder sochli kunstpause findi au nöd geil. sorry xx babers aber this aint it. performance het en hübsche bass am ahfang. i put on a performance jo alli mensche tönd nur so als würsne guet goh, mega relatable jo voll. replica au sochli seichte stuff, find afoch d production au nöd so meega ahsprechend. chase the night or does the night chase me? wooow deeep. sorry ich bin mega zynisch unterwegs. brave for you findi etz mit de verstimmte gitarre au sochli weniger vibey. geg de schluss hets sochli verzerrteri sounds aber s isch immerno seeehr dreamy und ich hass die verstimmt gitarre mann tuet das weh. i dare you isch gad chli meh groove. mag aber nöd wie er singt würkli nööööd. i can hear it now like i heard it then. ok cool, langwilige fucking song. test me fangt schomol so ah als würmer eigentlich am liebste ischlofe aber s loht eim nöd wells so ass isch. sorry david (slitty) aber the xx isch pretentious rotz git es herts 1. bin echt gad am warte bises endlich fertig isch.
This album is terrible😂 idk who listens to this stuff but there’s so much better music out there, so I wouldn’t want to waste more time listening to this stuff
On Hold actually made me laugh out loud and is a good example of why I can’t stand this band. Juvenile, melodramatic lyrics mixed with over produced techno nonsense mixed with cutesy Indy pop bullshit. I tried to get into this band when they first came around and couldn’t. This album is even worse than I expected.
This is the music that plays in Department store make-up sections. My experience with The XX is every time they come on my Spotify Indie playlist I skip their songs. The instrumentals sound like what plays in a perfume/cologne commercial while the vocals give off people who try too hard at karaoke. I know this is labeled as indie pop but it just gives off a soulless soul vibe. I can imagine someone listening to this thinking it’s deep and they relate on a spiritual level all while sitting staring out of their parents mansion, misunderstood to the world, painfully generic. Also the entire album is just incredibly boring and safe. Of course it did well, this is what people who have no musical taste think emotional music sounds like but it’s just a vapid shell that checks off points to make a successful pop album on the stage of modern music. 1/10
I liked the debut album but this somehow seems a bit boring, doesn't really bring anything new to the party.
Ugh. A bit dull. I think the recipe is: (4 mins, 4/4 beat, mild crescendo) Take a slow moody guitar, breathy vocals and generic non-specific lyrics about one person feeling something about another. Mix with some basic electronic stuff.
Not my thing at all, can't really comment on it Will I listen to again: 0%
2 songs in. i don't get the hype of this band. pretty bad.
It wasn't awful or anything, but it also was completely unmemorable.
2 voices, alt. Felt just baaaah
boring, couldn't go through
victim of profit
The first album I've gotten that I truly disliked. Very boring and basic