Xx XX Funk / Soul Track-to-track flow

Track-to-track flow

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony delivered the goods

Philadelphia

Fred Sesliano (esraj)

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

Xx XX Funk / Soul Track-to-track flowWhen 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