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Success is a double edged sword. It's even more if overwhelms you to your first album, recorded after school in the family garage. So, you find yourself having to take a break, because all that fuss you're not used to it, you want to take back your life, your affections. And 'what happened to the XX, invested, rightly, by a veritable wave of fame. All of them were looking for, all they wanted.
Now, after the break, Romy, Oliver and Jamie are back with the second, and needless to say, highly anticipated, studio effort, "Coexist". Eleven tracks sprouted from the "combination of three different souls but that they complement each other," as he told us Jamie, producer and DJ, in a recent interview.
"Angels", not only is the new single but also the song that opens the album, and from the very first, we realize that something has changed. The dark atmosphere give way to the sounds of dreams, between the electro and house, very special. The voices of Oliver and Romy blend to perfection. Love is certainly one of the main themes of "Coexist" tacked in all its aspects: the meeting, told in "Sunset", one of the most successful songs of the disc, captures with its melody punctuated by percussion rhythms so light be almost impalpable, in the rediscovery of the "Reunion", characterized by a thin vein dark and tormented, enriched beat mood, and the nostalgia of one who has gone in "Missing", caressing and touching at the time same. "My heart is beating in a different way," goes the song, and the beats seem to hear them seriously.
A hard really inspired, this "Coexist", thoughtful and well-constructed. The maturity of Jamie as a producer and DJ is heard in songs such as "Fiction", in which the electronic blends perfectly with the guitar, scratchy, and the voice of Oliver, crystalline and impact, and "Tides" where the intro sung by Romy and Oliver introduces a song a cappella rhythmic but slight. Many echoes 80's sounds and melodies, as in "Unfold" and "Swept Away" at the beginning melancholic ballad that turns into a crescendo of clapping and attractive cash house well studied.
The disc ends with "Our Song", dreamy track and whispered, very close to this new creature of XX: a ray of sunshine that pierces the darkness.
