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Jamie xx|In Waves

In Waves by Jamie xx

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Will we ever get another album from The xx? Who knows, but "Waited All Night" offers a reason to hold out hope. One of the best songs from band member/producer and remixer extraordinaire Jamie xx's third record is a band reunion of sorts: Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim trade high-end premium vocals over Jamie xx's foundation of glitchy beats and bits from the early-aughts British girl group Mis-teeq. The whole thing skitters and slides, hiccuping like a carnival ride, and it's just one of the exciting, all-over-the-place moments from In Waves. "Baddy on the Floor," a collab with DJ Honey Dijon, dabbles in disco and house, putting samples of Divine Styler's "Ain't Sayin' Nothin'" and Keni Burke's "Let Somebody Love You" through a blender with hard, bouncy bass beats. No surprise, Jamie (né James Smith) digs deep on soul and R&B samples, dusting off some Almeta Latimer for "Treat Each Other Right"—a glowstick-ready dance track with what sounds like revving sonar signals—and Tina Moore (back after a late '90s U.K. garage revival) for "Wanna," which starts off wildly intimate, with bare-bones piano, before developing into something way more complicated. Jamie also has excellent taste in collaborators, tapping Robyn for giddy-fun "Life," which finds the Swedish singer hitting it hard and shining bright like a diamond: "You're giving me life/ Shitty, pretty, wild … Giving me life/ Get it, make 'em gag." Panda Bear shows up for "Dafodil," which works in both Astrud Gilberto and J.J. Barnes' versions of "Touching You" and manipulates Kelsey Lu and John Glacier's vocals til they are blurry, dreamlike ("Everyone feeling soooooo goood"). The Avalanches join in on "All You Children," which relies heavily on a sample of Nikki Giovanni reading "Dance Poem" and boasts excellent builds, speaker-shaking rhythms and a mesmerizing chant by the Kids Theatre of Oz. A version of "Breather" is already a live favorite—Jamie xx has worked out many of these songs in the DJ booth from Coachella to Paris' Rock En Seine—thanks to its anxious beats and robo self-help voiceover ("You deserve to feel good/ You deserve to be healthy/ Just surrender"); it's six minutes of pulsing, club-ready shimmer. Another party starter, "Still Summer" streaks through the sky and nicks a bit from Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin." © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz

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1
Wanna
00:02:15

Omar Adimora, Composer - James Smith, Composer - Tommie Ford, Composer - David Wrench, MixingEngineer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Andy Quin, Composer - Timothy Andrew Liken, Composer - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bluewater Music Corp, MusicPublisher - Grace Banks, StudioPersonnel - de Wolfe Limited, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Amy Ratcliffe, StudioPersonnel - EMI Music Publishing Ltd obo Ineva Music Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - EMI Music Publishing obo Boogie Beat Music, MusicPublisher - My Jonathan Music Publishing, Inc. (BMI), MusicPublisher - Tina L. Moore, Composer - My Jonathan Music Publishing Inc. (BMI), Administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp, MusicPublisher

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Treat Each Other Right
00:04:00

James Smith, Composer - David Wrench, MixingEngineer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Rodaidh McDonald, Composer, Producer - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Grace Banks, StudioPersonnel - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Bicycle Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Amy Ratcliffe, StudioPersonnel - Almeta Latimer, ComposerLyricist - Hardest Songs (BMI) c/o Concord Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Life-Style Music and Concord Copyrights (BMI) obo itself, MusicPublisher

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Waited All Night
00:03:28

James Smith, Composer - Alan Glass, Composer - Ilsey Juber, ComposerLyricist - Alesha Dixon, Composer - Wendell Harrison, Composer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Mary Ann Morgan, Composer - Romy, MainArtist - Romy Madley Croft, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Sim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The XX, FeaturedArtist - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Sony Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Rodaidh McDonald, Producer, MixingEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Pamela Wise, Composer - Reservoir Media Management, MusicPublisher - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Sony/ATV Songs LLC / Sparko Phone Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - David Brandt, Composer

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Baddy On The Floor Explicit
00:03:42

James Smith, ComposerLyricist - Honey Dijon, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - David Wrench, MixingEngineer - Hal Ritson, Programmer - James Anderson, StudioMusician - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Richard Adlam, Programmer - Kenneth Burke, Composer - Luke Solomon, Composer, Producer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - BMG Rights Management, MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Grace Banks, StudioPersonnel - Mikal Safiyullah, Composer - Honey Redmond, ComposerLyricist - Defected Music Publishing Limited, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Amy Ratcliffe, StudioPersonnel - Balal Bashir, Composer - Third Palm Music / BMG, MusicPublisher

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Dafodil
00:03:32

James Smith, Composer - David Wrench, MixingEngineer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Panda Bear, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Rodaidh McDonald, Producer - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - IQ Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - Noah Benjamin Lennox, ComposerLyricist - Warp Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Domino Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - WARP MUSIC LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Kelsey Lu, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Patrick Peter Adams, ComposerLyricist - Grace Banks, StudioPersonnel - David Louis Jordan Jr., ComposerLyricist - John Glacier, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Kelsey McJunkins, ComposerLyricist - Amy Ratcliffe, StudioPersonnel - Domino Publishing Company Limited (PRS) / Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - DIVERSIFIED MUSIC INC, MusicPublisher

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Still Summer
00:03:25

James Smith, Composer - Justin Hayward, Composer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Rodaidh McDonald, MixingEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Tyler Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher

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Life Explicit
00:03:22

Klas Åhlund, Composer, StudioMusician - James Smith, Composer - Marc Cerrone, Composer - Robyn, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Robin Carlsson, ComposerLyricist - Because Editions, MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Sony/ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Tom Norris, MixingEngineer - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Raymond Georges Henri Donnez, Composer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Bicycle Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - K.Ahlund Publishing administered by Sony Music Publishing and Malligator Productions, MusicPublisher - Robynsongs administered by Universal Music Publishing AB, MusicPublisher

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The Feeling I Get From You
00:03:42

James Smith, Composer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Rodaidh McDonald, Composer, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Edward Nelson, ComposerLyricist - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Bicycle Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Concord Copyrights (BMI) obo itself, MusicPublisher - Bring Music, administered by Afrika Kuruvilla Kurian (BMI), MusicPublisher - Hardest Songs (BMI) c/o Concord Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Life-Style Music, MusicPublisher

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Breather
00:06:16

James Smith, Composer - David Wrench, MixingEngineer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Grace Banks, StudioPersonnel - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Amy Ratcliffe, StudioPersonnel

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All You Children
00:04:14

James Smith, Composer - David Wrench, MixingEngineer - Sony ATV, MusicPublisher - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Nikki Giovanni, ComposerLyricist - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - The Avalanches, Producer, Programmer, MainArtist - robert chater, Composer - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Grace Banks, StudioPersonnel - Anthony DiBlasi, Composer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Andy Szekeres, Composer - Amy Ratcliffe, StudioPersonnel

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Every Single Weekend (Interlude)
00:01:11

James Smith, Composer - David Wrench, MixingEngineer - Sony ATV, MusicPublisher - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Kobalt Music, MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Kobalt Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - The Avalanches, Producer, Programmer - Sony/ATV Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - robert chater, Composer - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Grace Banks, StudioPersonnel - Anthony DiBlasi, Composer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Howard Harris, ComposerLyricist - Andy Szekeres, Composer - Amy Ratcliffe, StudioPersonnel - HIOS MUSIC, MusicPublisher

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Falling Together Explicit
00:05:37

James Smith, Composer - Matt Colton, MasteringEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Ltd., MusicPublisher - Rodaidh McDonald, MixingEngineer - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Jamie xx, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Oona Doherty, Lyricist, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bush Moukarzel, Lyricist

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Review: Jamie xx - In Waves

Will we ever get another album from The xx? Who knows, but "Waited All Night" offers a reason to hold out hope. One of the best songs from band member/producer and remixer extraordinaire Jamie xx's third record is a band reunion of sorts: Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim trade high-end premium vocals over Jamie xx's foundation of glitchy beats and bits from the early-aughts British girl group Mis-teeq. The whole thing skitters and slides, hiccuping like a carnival ride, and it's just one of the exciting, all-over-the-place moments from In Waves. "Baddy on the Floor," a collab with DJ Honey Dijon, dabbles in disco and house, putting samples of Divine Styler's "Ain't Sayin' Nothin'" and Keni Burke's "Let Somebody Love You" through a blender with hard, bouncy bass beats. No surprise, Jamie (né James Smith) digs deep on soul and R&B samples, dusting off some Almeta Latimer for "Treat Each Other Right"—a glowstick-ready dance track with what sounds like revving sonar signals—and Tina Moore (back after a late '90s U.K. garage revival) for "Wanna," which starts off wildly intimate, with bare-bones piano, before developing into something way more complicated. Jamie also has excellent taste in collaborators, tapping Robyn for giddy-fun "Life," which finds the Swedish singer hitting it hard and shining bright like a diamond: "You're giving me life/ Shitty, pretty, wild … Giving me life/ Get it, make 'em gag." Panda Bear shows up for "Dafodil," which works in both Astrud Gilberto and J.J. Barnes' versions of "Touching You" and manipulates Kelsey Lu and John Glacier's vocals til they are blurry, dreamlike ("Everyone feeling soooooo goood"). The Avalanches join in on "All You Children," which relies heavily on a sample of Nikki Giovanni reading "Dance Poem" and boasts excellent builds, speaker-shaking rhythms and a mesmerizing chant by the Kids Theatre of Oz. A version of "Breather" is already a live favorite—Jamie xx has worked out many of these songs in the DJ booth from Coachella to Paris' Rock En Seine—thanks to its anxious beats and robo self-help voiceover ("You deserve to feel good/ You deserve to be healthy/ Just surrender"); it's six minutes of pulsing, club-ready shimmer. Another party starter, "Still Summer" streaks through the sky and nicks a bit from Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin." © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz

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