Jamie XX Creates a Groundbreaking Collage of Beats, Sounds and Songs on the Brilliant ‘In Waves’: Album Review
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The challenge in talking about Jamie XX’s brilliant new album “In Waves” is trying to describe what “kind” of music it is.
As the main songwriter and producer in the British trio the XX, he was the driving force behind one of the great hopes of alternative music in the late ‘00s.
But as that group splintered, he began leaning into his other gig as a DJ and producer, and released the more beat-and-sample-based “In Colour” in 2015.
That album is great, but nearly nine years later, “In Waves” takes its template and turns it into something truly next level: It’s loaded with powerful beats and samples and basslines like a dance album, but unlike a lot of DJ-artists — who tend to focus on production — he comes at the music as much as a songwriter, with an ear toward melody and emotion as well as the dancefloor.
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