In Colour

Submitted by Glyn Lewis on 30 October 2015 - 10:38pm

Nominations had to be from the Mercury Music Prize 2015 short list

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Artist:

Jamie XX

album-ID:

a_176

Nationality:

Year:

2 015

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Gosh*Sleep Sound*SeeSaw*Obvs*Just Saying*Stranger In A Room*Hold Tight*Loud Places*I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)*The Rest Is Noise*Girl

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Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_68

Now-num:

2 015

Spotify-URL:

0AVPusXNzK1jWwefBiPJ5I

Short-title:

inColour

nominator-ID:

u_1

Meeting-date:

Monday, 7 March 2016

MusicBrainz-URL:

a903a977-5932-4cc2-a064-57a596658b3d

Wikipedia-URL:

In_Colour_(Jamie_xx_album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

in-colour/jamie-xx

Discogs-URL:

Jamie-XX-In-Colour/master/842201

Allmusic-URL:

jamie-xx-mn0002602648

rdio-URL:

Jamie_xx/album/In_Colour

Musixmatch-URL:

Jamie-xx/In-Colour

Pitchfork-URL:

albums/20458-in-colour/

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Glyn Lewis

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4-5

It’s got that XX feel but it’s all a lot more upbeat and energetic than I might have anticipated, which is probably just as well, as, like most listeners, I’ve probably OD-ed on their suffocating sound. Stranger in a Room is the most obvs in his parent group’s style and the few other reminiscent touches are mixed in with a whole selection of slowed-down dance-oriented styles – it does just about sit together okay for me, moving about in sound and approach quite comfortably.

It feels a bit like he is trying stuff out, some of which works better than others, and I suppose if you are making any criticism - it is that it feels very current and even a bit cheesy already - although I actually like those sort of corny “shout out Birmingham crew” style things. Not the classic some would have you believe but good stuff all the same.
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Richard Norbury
5

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Dreadful

9-11

Demonstates everything that is wrong with music today. Quite dreadful, one of the worst albums I've ever heard.

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