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- Summary: The second full-length solo release from electronic producer Jamie xx features guest appearances by Oona Doherty, John Glacier, Honey Dijon, Kelsey Lu, Panda Bear, Robyn, Romy, Oliver Sim, and The Avalanches.
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- Record Label: Young
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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Sep 23, 2024The cover of In Waves may be black and white, but the music within proves every bit as colourful as his debut, with the added bonus of frequent dancefloor highs. What a thrill it all is.
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Sep 20, 2024In Waves sounds like the music Jamie xx needed to make at this point in his career -- its love letter to the communal healing power of dance music is often more purposeful, and more satisfying, than his instant-classic debut.
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Sep 19, 2024The end of In Waves is bound to divide listeners who will cotton to the connection between dancing and the simple joys children experience, and those who will (especially on the second listen) tire of the rote positivity, like a yoga instructor whose constant instructions to breathe are detracting from the breathing. Regardless, as pieces of a whole they fit the restorative nature of In Waves. Jaime xx needed an answer “why” and the response was “yes”.
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Sep 18, 2024Packed with meditative spoken-word vocals, this is an even more melancholic record than its predecessor – and a less immediately exciting one, too. But it’s arguably a more complex beast, born of a complex era yet authored by a musician with one eye on the simple, timeless pleasures of the club.
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Sep 18, 2024Nearly a decade on, Jamie xx proves he still has the X factor. It was worth the wait.
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UncutSep 18, 2024It’s a vibrant and genre-spanning collection, from the stripped-back piano house of opener “Wanna” via the UK garage flavour of “Waited All Night” (featuring xx bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim). Elsewhere, there are touches of R&B, disco, pop and electro-funk as the record unfurls with all the grace and flow of a masterful DJ set. [Oct 2024, p.43]
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Sep 20, 2024He can't find a way back into the very culture that created him. This tragedy, and its lack of resolution, defines the saccharine and overdone sound of In Waves, whose missing of the mark is evident from its earliest moments.