The XX

it looks like they have all pivoted to DJing instead.

Oliver put out a solo album mentioned above that was not dj'ing

Romy just sang live with Fred Again, and while Jamie XX is dj'ing -- he creating a recent Notting Hill Carnival track himself

romy is working on a very slowly gestating solo album, jamie has been putting out the occasional solo track too

figure they'll make another album in a few years once romy's released hers, they still seem to be all on good terms

romy is onto something good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gGG7u0dbE

The Romy album is out today and it's fantastic

it's quite good, makes me hope the eventual next xx album goes full deep house

Shazam’d a song and was pleased it was from this album.

this is pretty solid

This is truly the year of retro '90s house

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/arts/music/romy-madley-croft-mid-air.html

Growing up, she explained, the first music that spoke to her identity as a gay woman was mostly what she jokingly referred to as “lesbian acoustic music.” “I’ve always fought against that,” she said. “The reason there’s electronic music in the early demos of the xx is me, wanting to make something else.” She readily credits a new generation of rock and indie acts with broadening the scope of queer guitar music, but “indie, and rock, that’s not really my thing now.” She came to a firm decision: “I want to make dance pop.”...She mentioned Everything but the Girl — which Madley Croft’s parents raised her on — or even Cher’s “Believe,” which she cited as her favorite song. But rooting the anthemic big beats is inspiration taken from more sober moments in her life: processing the grief of both of her parents’ deaths before she was 21; her ongoing struggles to conquer self-doubt and adapt to a new romance.

“She makes very catchy melodies. That’s the thing that always gets me,” Jamie xx said in a phone interview. He noted that the album was filled with earnest tracks that “could become really big pop songs — and could be super cheesy — but there’s always a level of restraint and classiness that she brings to it.”...In early 2018, she was paired for a songwriting session with a young up-and-coming producer named Fred Gibson, a.k.a. the now white-hot musician Fred again.. The chemistry was immediate. “He has a very magical charm — which is amazing, as a songwriter and a producer — to make someone feel at ease,” she said.

She mentioned Everything but the Girl — which Madley Croft’s parents raised her on

I always thought she had a very similar singing style to Tracey Thorne.

I desperately want extended versions of Loveher and She's On My Mind. just gorgeous songs.

https://consequence.net/2024/01/the-xx-new-album-confirmed/?

They should add more members to the band so that they can also do solo albums first.