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"   Photo: The xx  The UK&amp;#039;s Mercury Prize winning Album of the Year was announced earlier this week, with pop/soul/new wave trio The xx beating out 12 others including Foals&amp;#039; Total Life Forever, returning champ Dizzie Rascal&amp;#039;s Tongue `N Cheek and US chart-topper Corinne Bailey Rae&amp;#039;s The Sea. The indie darlings, Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and producer Jamie Smith (Jamie xx) came together in 2005 to record the album in their South London garage \u2014 it went on to hit Rolling Stone`s #9 and NME&amp;#039;s #2 on their respective top 10 lists this year. The hit single Islands, a duet between Croft and Sims laid over minimal lo-fi samples from Jamie xx, has been called a &amp;quot;psycho-geographical love song...the perfect soundtrack fro wandering aimlessly along rainy London streets.&amp;quot; A mix of pop, glossy R&amp;amp;amp;B and 80\u2032s new wave the group cites influences running the gamut from Rihanna to the Cure and The Pixies to Mariah Carey. Their songs have been heard on everything from Law &amp;amp;amp; Order to Gossip Girl and even worked their way onto Karl Lagerfield&amp;#039;s AW11 runway. The group kicks off their US tour in Hollywood next week after finishing up the UK summer festival circuit at tomorrow night&amp;#039;s performance of Bestival on the Isle of Wight. When asked backstage how they thought they might react to a win, which comes with a \u00A320,000 prize they answered, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think we&amp;#039;re gonna do like a Kate Winslet and cry.&amp;quot; Maybe they&amp;#039;re saving all the tears and anxiety for next year&amp;#039;s indie album of the year. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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