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The Magic of Heartbeat in The xx

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If beat is inclined to subject to the musical structure or form, it may fall into the additional allocation in the sense of composing music. Contrary to the beat, heartbeat marks the sense of uncertainty in musical allocation since it breaks the rule of the musical song in general. For me, Heartbeat is more like a force in movement aiming to create a possible space, and it also unearths a space under water as listening to it developing itself with sudden appearance and disappearance. There are two parts attracting me in The xx's Coexist Brazil Live performance. Firstly, the procession of heartbeat from "Reunion" to "Sunset," which is supposed to be the linking in between, unfolds a sense of space in the live tour in Brazil. In Live, the heartbeat is beating from the middle to the end of "Reunion." This time it does not link the "Sunset" but "Far Nearer." The heartbeat is subtly increasing its intensity and ferocity step