Posts Tagged ‘Young Turks Recordings’

JAMIE XX – ” Loud Places ” Feat Romy Live du Grand Journal

Posted: December 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Jamie XX performs live ‘Loud Places’ from the album “In Colour”
The artist gave a wonderful live performance on the set of the TV show “Le Grand Journal”

Jamie XX released his debut solo LP In Colour this year via Young Turks Records. He stopped by French TV show Le Grand Journal to perform the track “Loud Places” from the album with XX bandmates Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim, as well as Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and a choir.

What Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” was to the hippie era, Jamie xx’s solo debut is to British club culture: a wistful valentine conjuring a more innocent time. Exhibit A is “Gosh,” which flips a sound bite from a pioneering U.K. jungle broadcast. But the track isn’t jungle per se, because the head chef of the xx shoots for moods, not rote styles — which is why he’s among pop’s greatest producers. –

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FKA TWIGS – ” M3LL155X “

Posted: December 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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There’s no reason why FKA Twigs had to release anything in 2015 — we’re all still processing her momentous debut — but let’s be thankful that she did, because M3LL155X contains some of her best work yet. Epic but succinct in scope (and accompanied by some of the greatest visuals of the year), she crafts an all-encompassing, often suffocating experience. It’s like Tahliah Barnett replaced all of the negative space on her debut with an inky, shadowy blackness — there are devilish whispers and an ominously ticking clock, all contributing to the feeling that you’re being buried alive. With insurmountable pressure and urgency, she tackles autonomy and authority, waiting and being told to wait. It’s a monumental work from one of our greatest musicians, and it’s a shock that it clocks in at under 20 minutes.

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