The XX

yeah i have mixed feelings abt music atm i guess

idk

maybe

lots of great stuff this year

like every year imo

i doubt it's the music

lol i don't even know what that means

btw, i'm not really getting those highs from music anymore = sad. especially after all these years...

― Bee OK, Friday, September 2, 2011 3:26 AM

yeah i have mixed feelings abt music atm i guess

― markers, Friday, September 2, 2011 3:32 AM

there probably is "lots of great stuff this year," and if i'm not super into any of it "i doubt it's the music," it's probably me

oh

It's time for a new album, you xx people.

otm

The xx to record deep house album?

well played the xx

New album "Coexist" in Septermber.

http://pitchfork.com/news/46397-the-xx-announce-new-album/

Do they have any other instrumentals beside "Intro?"

speaking of "Intro", here it is edited to be 10 hours long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm-ViInMmlw

A+

New song from The Great Gatsby soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoj2I6ZJLx8

you know what, the xx should collaborate with the dude from These New Puritans

nice but lol at the gratuitous movie soundtrack strings, especially when the 808 cowbell comes back in.

feels like they've really lost their ear for phrasing

It's definitely a song by The XX

the jamie xx record in colour leaked yesterday and i've been listening to it all day and i think it's fantastic

It's wonderful. Surprisingly joyous. That Young Thug/Popcaan track is my summer song for sure.

worst and most worthless album of the year

very much looking forward to this, everything i've heard so far sounds fantastic.

dunno how anyone can make it through the opening track without cringing their face off

his steel pans are so pathetic

pathetic as a choice or because they're not good-sounding steel pan drums?

they're mimsy and flat and ineffective at conveying any sort of joy at all

You have harshed a buzz I hadn't even got around to considering achieving

idk about joy but i love melancholy steel drums, used to great effect on that 'all under one roof raving' single.

and i like the raw, slightly unfinished quality of his production.

There aren't any steel pans on the opening track?

Reading the Philip Sherburne piece may explain why the steel pans don't sound great. They're a child size version.

I really like the album. Hold Tight is hard to criticise imo.

lol wins

and same

rolf

haha wow, Boomkat (of all places) going in:
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/1251070-jamie-xx-in-colour-deluxe-vinyl-edition

that review is hilarious

i don't think i've ever seen a negative review on boomkat before, have they been saving up all of their bad vibes for this very special moment?

"seminal joss stone" i died

that's a great review bucz it also makes a very good case for liking the album

Wow. I can't believe Boomkat did that. Respect (I guess?) although I've loved all the Jamie XX tracks I've heard so far and I'm looking forward to hearing this.

lollll boomkat

they've been getting quite snide about some records of late but if ever there was a perfect album to finally snap over

I haven't heard the album and am quite open to the prospect of disliking it, but I think that review is some bullshit whining about diluted white middle-class culture from people with delusions as to their own raw to the core hardness - sub-blackdown at best.

My reaction to the Jamie XX/Gil Scott-Heron album was akin to my reaction to The Streets' first album so I feel like the target demographic for that review

Boomkat review is the proud descendant of 1995 reviews complaining about trip hop and mellow drum'n'bass, only the old references to coffee tables and dinner parties have been updated.

I have never enjoyed anything I've heard by Jamie XX or the XX for that matter, but that review has actually peaked my interest enough to want to hear it for some reason.

Tim F, the review and 'Sleep Sound' somehow all OTM.

I listened to it a couple of times last week and it's largely rudimentary and tentative-sounding. Like a lot of his production there's a Fisher Price element to it that could be really enjoyable if he followed it to its conclusion but he rarely does.

There are a couple of tracks with Romy that basically sound like the XX, but the one with Young Thug and Popcaan on it is by far the best track there. A lot of the rest of it sounds unfinished in comparison.

I haven't heard the album and am quite open to the prospect of disliking it, but I think that review is some bullshit whining about diluted white middle-class culture from people with delusions as to their own raw to the core hardness - sub-blackdown at best.

glad someone else said it. "students", "yummy mummys". what even is a "yummy mummy"? someone who has kids? what does the "yummy" part mean? i suppose these people are very unlike the hardcore gangsters and criminals that buy vinyl at boomkat.

talk your way to the grave guys...