Coexist

I watched you breathe in

and i wished you'd stop

only for long enough

long enough

its hard to say

separate or combine

i ask one last time

did i hold you too tight?

did i not let enough light in?

if a feeling appears

if your mind should sway

it's not a secret you should keep

i wont let you slip away

we used to be closer than this

we used to get closer than this

is it something you missed?

winged or chained

i ask would you have stayed

__The XX
    Chained. 

The XX is this beautiful melodic trio that i fell in love with a few years back. Many would recognize an older release of theirs, Islands. This month they've given triple j listeners a sneak peak at their new album, Coexist. The band had this crazy idea to share it with one fan a few days before it was set to launch in the US. Within an hour, the London mega fan had released the link causing the site to go viral and crash within 24hours due to its inability to withstand the traffic of fans checking out the new tunes. Insanely enough, the phenomenon managed to go completely unseen by industry bloggers until the next day. But needless to say, it shows how quickly the world interconnects these days and the power of the internet (and no doubt a certain fans lack of secret keeping abilities).
Not often do i find an album that i love wholly and truly from first listen the entire way through on repeat for 5 hours. There is not a single track that i find myself wanting to skip past. The XX generally have pretty depressing topics.. while on first listen their harmonies are so sweet they melt, when you start to read in to their lyrics, you catch a glimpse of some really disheartening, soul searching and ultimately emotional imbroglios and crossroads. 

Never the less, i have never felt so soothed by such complexities and the manner in which they do so is pure talent to create such bliss for my ears. 

Check it out. 

Coexist