Nine years on from his sumptuous debut solo effort In Colour, today sees the release of Jamie xx’s second solo album. Featuring his Honey Dijon collaboration Baddy On The Floor, In Waves is a star-studded dance music smorgasbord, including hook-ups with Panda Bear, The Avalanches, and Robyn, as well as his bandmates from The xx. Critics have sung its praises, while noting its more melancholic tone. Welcome back, Mr xx! - Flying Out
In Waves is a melancholy paradise of bliss, heartbreak, and introspection. The story of a journey where you merge into the divine pulse of shadows, light, and dancefloor rhythms. A strobelite epiphany about the illimitable possibilities and spiritual capacities of humanity. Nine years after his debut solo masterpiece, In Colour, the London producer has not only eclipsed the heights of its predecessor, he’s somehow made all supernatural adjectives and analogies seem understated.
Guest include Romy and Oliver from The xx, Honey Dijon, The Avalanches, Panda Bear, John Glacier, Kelsey Lu and Robyn.
With a sorcerer’s sleight-of-hand, Jamie xx manipulates tempo, rhythm, and pitch – swiftly cutting between sub-genres and decades. He seamlessly layers Northern Soul, disco, garage, acid house, techno, tropicalia, hip-hop, funk, and the sounds of contemporary underground UK pirate radio. He expands on the foundation of Larry Levan and The Avalanches, Moodymann and Burial while reshuffling sepia memories, empyrean samples, and bent-knee emotion.
Tracklist
01 Wanna
02 Treat Each Other Right
03 Waited All Night [ft. Romy and Oliver Sim]
04 Baddy on the Floor [ft. Honey Dijon]
05 Dafodil [ft. Kelsey Lu, John Glacier and Panda Bear]
06 Still Summer
07 Life [ft. Robyn]
08 The Feeling I Get From You
09 Breather
10 All You Children [ft. The Avalanches]
11 Every Single Weekend (Interlude)
12 Falling Together [ft. Oona Doherty]
