One Easter as a kid, Jamie xx made an important choice. Instead of sticking to tradition with chocolate, he asked for a copy of the ‘NOW 41’ compilation on CD. “It was quite a big deal for me because I loved chocolate,” he jokes.

We’ve grown up with lots of eclectic music Romy Madley Croft

It opened the future-producer up to Fatboy Slim’s ‘Praise You’, which he had on repeat. And the purchase coincided with him being gifted a turntable, aged 10, by his two uncles who both DJ'ed.

As for bassist Oliver Sim and guitarist Romy Madley Croft – whose iconic dual vocals have helped make The xx a household name – they were raised by music lovers. “There was always music playing,” Sim remembers. He was most entranced by a VHS copy of Talking Heads’ ‘Stop Making Sense’ concert film. “David Byrne was this cartoon character of a man to me, with these huge shoulders and a tiny head.”

Romy's parents were such big music fans, there would rarely be a moment when it wasn’t playing. Her dad put on a record at dinner time, “and we would listen to it, rather than talk. Which I didn’t realise [at the time] wasn’t the most conventional family set-up. It was quite a ritual. The vinyl would go on, we’d eat, and we’d be listening to it.”

Each member had music introduced to them in their formative years, and it was never constrained to one artist or genre. “That’s something we all share; we’ve grown up with lots of eclectic music,” Romy says.