Posted on: 29.10.2024
SOTW: Jamie XX - Waited All Night
First entry! 
genre: electronic
when to play: the club, home alone, a house party
Jamie's In Waves was one of the first albums I listened to after I got back from the hospital. There's so much energy and joy in it, but it's not forced. I just feel so good when listening to it. The mix is absolutely wonderful, the instruments and sounds are so diverse, and, as always, he brings a great fresh sound on his tracks.
This song in particular is special to me - not only does it makes me want to dance so hard in spite of my stiches aching on any radical move, but it brings the 2010's nostalgia as he features the vocals of his the xx bandmates' on the track, who were a big part of my teenage years. The combination of their voices is absolutely stunning to my ear (and that little melody Romy does on the chorus? so catchy!) and this track manages to put me into such a groove - and in these personally rough times, not many songs were able to do that.