Clash Issue 79 The xx

Our fabrics get conceptual in this specially styled’Denim Issue’ of Clash Magazine. It’s in our jeans…

After more than a year of side-projects, we meet the UK’s most beloved minimal pop trio, The xx, as they rejoin fortheir second studio album.

We also meet Flying Lotus.As an artist and producer in a rich groove, his last album, Cosmogramma, set a popular benchmark, gathering reverential acclaim and gate-crashing the US Top 20 in the process. As a proud label boss, his Brainfeeder imprint continues to command a critical, almost cultish, respect; an esteemed byword for a world of celestial interludes, static samples, gloomy atmospherics and hijacked frequencies.

Plus: John Cale, Band Of Horses, the infamous Crondall rock n’ roll club, Richard Hawley, Lisa Marie Presley and more.