There’s a slight resemblance between the album art of XO’s debut full-length Heart and the foggy bubblegum-pink cover of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless. MBV’s nuanced shoegaze is also reflected in California-based XO’s sound, but the group draw more from their own pop-punk roots and indie-rock sensibilities on Heart than from any dark webs of noise created by bands like MBV.
“The songs are mostly…
