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As for the best tracks, “Crystallized” is one of several exemplary uses of the female-male duet. In what I imagine to be a conversation between a boy and girl who communicate well in bed but poorly outside it, Croft and Sim overlap each other with words that sound similar but hold completely different meanings: She says, “Glaciers have melted to the sea,” wanting to be a glacier herself, free from the heat of passion. He says, “Things have gotten closer to the sun,” admitting things have gotten hot, maybe too hot. But eventually they meet in the same place, with him proving his feelings in his own sweet time and both of them declaring, to themselves or each other, “Go slow.
— Liz Colville on the xx. This post is my favorite thing that I have read about this band.
