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The xx talk new LP

By | Published on Wednesday 18 July 2012

The xx

The xx have been saying things to Radio 1’s Zane Lowe about their “adventurous” new long player, ‘Coexist’. Talking to the DJ following the on-air premiere of CMU approved new single ‘Angels’, bassist/vocalist Oliver Sim first described recording sessions for the LP, as took place at the band’s London studio between winter 2011 and May of this year.

He said: “We were very much alone without anyone. It was easy to do what we wanted. We went into this second album and hardly any of it was premeditated. There weren’t many discussions and we didn’t go into it with very many limitations. We’re still the same band [but] we weren’t intentionally trying to sound like us. We had a good time and we were adventurous”.

Jamie xx, who has been involved in various extracurricular projects since the band’s debut, later told Lowe: “I had to relearn how to work with my two best friends rather than with people I didn’t really know or just on my own. That took a bit of time”.

‘Coexist’, by the way, is out on 10 Sep. And this is its tracklisting:

Angels
Chained
Fiction
Try
Reunion
Sunset
Missing
Tides
Unfold
Swept Away
Our Song



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