{"id":35793,"date":"2015-07-23T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=35793"},"modified":"2015-10-02T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T04:28:46","slug":"jamie-xx-in-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/07\/23\/jamie-xx-in-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie xx: In Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-35794\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jamie-xx-in-colour.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie-xx-in-colour\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jamie-xx-in-colour.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jamie-xx-in-colour-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jamie-xx-in-colour-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>26 year old Jamie Smith is a monolith of the British electronic scene. You may know him from his work as a member of The xx, his production of the title track from Drake&#8217;s 2011 release &#8220;Take Care&#8221;, his score work for a ballet commissioned by the Manchester International Festival (chances are you don&#8217;t know him from that, but, cool, right?), or &#8220;We&#8217;re New Here,&#8221; his Jamie xx remix album of Gil Scott-Heron&#8217;s final album &#8220;I&#8217;m New Here.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re New Here&#8221; was an impressively well composed and successful release (I&#8217;m taking care not to let this review turn into a review for &#8220;We&#8217;re New Here,&#8221; but, check it out if you so please. It&#8217;s beautiful).<br \/>\nHis first truly solo release as Jamie xx, &#8220;In Colour&#8221;, released this past May with even more positive reverberations from charts, his listenership at large, and even Pitchfork (one of the only things Pitchfork and I agree on: the talent of Jamie Smith).<br \/>\nThe depth and scope of &#8220;In Colour&#8221; will leave you unable to tolerate silence or stillness. This a house album at it&#8217;s core, and if you put this album on and close your eyes and use your imagination, or just throw back a cocktail of Ecstasy, LSD, and a tinge of THC, you&#8217;ll think you finally understand why humans rave. The entrancing and cyclical melodic landscape this album creates in 42 minutes is astounding.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m writing this review at home, slung over a comfortable chair with soft light streaming around me from the afternoon sun, but I feel as though I could not only handle, but happily immerse myself in a hot and sweaty club where &#8220;In Colour&#8221; is pulsing.<br \/>\nThis album demands to be felt, not just heard. It is undeniable and transportive. Turn it on and stare into the ether of your existence. Or just f-ing dance and groove until you can&#8217;t breathe. Either way, you&#8217;re going to remember getting absorbed &#8220;In Colour&#8221;.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Disclosure, Mount Kimbie, The xx, SBTRKT, FKA Twigs, James Blake<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: 10 (The Rest Is Noise), 1 (Gosh), 2 (Sleep Sound), 8 (Loud Places)<br \/>\nDo Not Play: Conveniently, the only less than wonderful track is the only DNP: 9 (I Know There&#8217;s Gonna Be (Good Times))<br \/>\nWritten by Kayci Lineberger on 07\/23\/2015 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An undeniable and transportive house album that demands to be felt, not just heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":35794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,4,3235,3230],"tags":[3138,3335,1067,2732,1066,3336],"class_list":["post-35793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-house","tag-in-colour","tag-jamie-xx","tag-kayci-lineberger","tag-the-xx","tag-trance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jamie-xx-in-colour.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}