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Why Has It Taken This Long for The xx to Get a Japanese Cover Band?

The xx — the soft-spoken British trio whose self-titled debut has, slowly but surely, implanted itself in our brains — have provided the raw material for some unexpectedly great hip-hop experimentation (most notably the Notorious XX, although our favorite has to be the Hood Internet’s “The XX Gon’ Give It To Ya.”) Now comes an even stranger permutation: The oo, a Japanese cover band whose entire existence, thus far, consists of two covers from The xx posted on a bare-bones myspace page. Who are these faithful, mysterious artists? And where can we get more of their heavily accented, strangely mesmerizing rock and roll music?

Listen to The oo at myspace.com/theootheoo

Why Has It Taken This Long for The xx to Get a Japanese Cover Band?