Jamie xx: In Waves
Briefly

Tracks like these offered a defense of this need and a depiction of it. They felt, they feel, essential.
His collab with the Avalanches brings the legendary poet Nikki Giovanni to the party via lifted stanzas of her Black Arts Movement "Dance Poem," and the track's psychedelic pop groove is welcoming nonetheless.
The pleasure of the dancefloor also animates his album-length return. In Waves generally plays to his strengths.
"Baddy on the Floor" brings in the iconic Honey Dijon for a gospel-house stormer, easily the most vital track of the bunch.
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