Jamie xx’s “In Waves” Album Download ZIP & MP3 Free Files
Jamie xx has been very active over the last decade. The DJ and producer, whose real name is Jamie Smith, composed the score for a ballet and scored Roman Gavras’ film “The World Is Yours” before returning in April 2020 with “Idontknow”, the first in a series of one-off singles. In 2017, he reunited with Sim and Madley Croft for the xx’s third LP, “I See You,” and helped produce both of their debut solo albums. He kept testing out new material in his various and increasingly high-profile DJ sets, as well as in his Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 show during the first weeks of the pandemic. Outside of music, he traveled across the world and took up surfing, which informs the title of his new album, “In Waves.” One of the standalone tracks, “KILL DEM,” was inspired by London’s Notting Hill Carnival, where he DJed for the first time in 2022 but has attended since he was a teenager. The restlessness that’s defined Smith’s career, though, nearly drained the life out of him. “I don’t remember anything pretty much from when I was 18 until I was 30,” Smith said in a recent interview. “It’s all just a blur of being in a different city every day.”
Looking back, it’s hard not to see that blurriness seeping through 2015’s “In Colour”. As backward-facing and nostalgic as it was perceived at the time—qualities that did little to detract from its widespread acclaim—the record has clearly stood the test of time. The album may have served as the average indie fan’s entry point to electronic music, but it was also nuanced and expansive enough for any listener to revel in the tiniest details for a long time. Buoying the hushed vulnerability, even modesty, of the record was a revolving door of emotions, but also a sense that melancholy and euphoric abandon could exist within the same breath, the same way moments lost their individual timestamp in the vastness of it all.
Though just as layered and naturally in conversation with past sounds, “In Waves” is primed for, and actively aware of, the present moment—and not just in the way that late-album cut “Breather” intersects Smith’s love of dance music with transcendental meditation (“The past is gone/ And the future is uncertain/ But what we know right now is this moment”). Take how that song recalls “Anadlu” by Kelly Lee Owens, an artist Smith played on that Essential Mix and who has recently been steering her music in a less introverted, more dancefloor-ready direction—as Smith does here. The Floor, a pop-up club Smith built inside the Bermondsey venue MOT, has welcomed guests ranging from Daphni and Axel Boman to Charli XCX and the 1975’s George Daniel (whose label dh2 is releasing Owens’ new album). The long wait between records guarantees the new one will be hailed as timeless, but there’s something refreshingly tapped-in and of the moment about “In Waves,” even if, with its autumn release, it would seem to arrive just a tad too late.
Tracklist:
- Wanna
- Treat Each Other Right
- Waited All Night ft. Romy, Oliver Sim
- Baddy on the Floor ft. Honey Dijon
- Dafodil ft. Kelsey Lu, John Glacier & Panda Bear
- Still Summer
- Life w/ Robyn
- The Feeling I Get From You
- Breather
- All You Children ft. The Avalanches
- Every Single Weekend (Interlude)
- Falling Together ft. Oona Doherty
About Artist:
James Thomas Smith (born 28 October 1988), known professionally as Jamie xx, is an English musician, DJ, record producer, and remixer. He is known for his solo work and as a member of the indie pop band the xx.
He has been described as a “driving force” behind the xx, contributing to the group’s significant commercial and critical success. As a solo artist, he has been recognized with a 2015 Mercury Prize nomination and a 2016 Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for In Colour.
Jamie xx composed the score for a ballet, Tree of Codes, commissioned by Manchester International Festival for its 2015 edition. Based on a novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, the ballet was choreographed by Wayne McGregor and had a set created by Olafur Eliasson.
In 2020, he released his first single in five years, “Idontknow,” which received positive to lukewarm reception from critics. He was credited on Tyler, the Creator’s 2021 album “Call Me If You Get Lost” as a co-producer on the track “RISE!”
Jamie xx has worked on each of his The xx bandmates’ respective solo albums: he produced Oliver Sim’s “Hideous Bastard” (2022) and co-produced Romy’s “Mid Air” (2023).
