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But on November 9, hours after Donald Tmp’s victory was nfirmed, pe li at the end of this dark alleyway. In an upstairs rehearsal room, <a href=">the xx</a> are practicg for an imment BBC performance; a fortnight, they’ll travel to Croatia to kick off their first tour more than two years. The group’s reemergence along wh their third album, <a href=" target="_blank"><em>I See You</em></a>, a rerd that knows somethg about survivg dark tim. This eveng, the outsi world is well and tly banished.</p><p>They n a closed rehearsal, where producer <a href=" target="_blank">Jamie Smh</a>’s hulkg crcent of synths are only dible through headphon. A sgle serene ndle atop <a href=" target="_blank">Romy Madley Croft</a>’s guar amp seems to mock the disrd cups lterg the low-ceilged room, brgg lm to a day of disbelief. “I try not to check my phone first thg, but…” Madley Croft trails off, lookg down at her Suxsie and the Banshe hoodie. “I thought was a joke. I’m speechls.”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-unslot nsumer-marketg-unslot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Not that the xx are an explicly polil band. Co-leads <a href=" target="_blank">Oliver Sim</a> and Madley Croft are both gay, and there’s an argument to be ma for the xx providg a rare portra of queer timacy, though they prefer to see as universal. In the rehearsal room, ’s easy to image them as teenagers a South London garage: Sim the lear, Madley Croft the gui, Smh the silent sage.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>“Let’s power through, and if somethg go wrong, jt let happen,” says Sim. From his synth battaln, Smh triggers the vol sampl om “<a href=">Gosh</a>,” a sgle om his 2015 solo album, <a href="><em>In Colour</em></a>, which turned the band’s shyt member to s unlikely breakout star. Over the track’s chompg rhythm, Madley Croft starts sgg “Shelter,” om <a href=">the xx’s self-tled but</a>. The mash-up shouldn’t work. “Gosh” clatters, while an airy synth seems to trace the London skyle; “Shelter” quietly anguish over vanishg sensatns. But more than 16 years of iendship has led to a certa md-meld, and the tracks fe perfectly, Smh’s song heighteng the speratn Madley Croft’s lyrics. As the synths wd skyward, she sets down her guar. Sim spontaneoly extends a hand, and the sgers turn a hug to a sway, spng slowly until they return to their microphon for the song’s fal l.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="adslot adslot---ntent" data-no-id="yv2atq"></div></div><p>“I like our slow dance for ‘Gosh’—let’s slow dance!” he tells her afterwards. She’s ls nvced. They n through the song aga, the pair dancg more purposefully this time, their clasped hands potg out as her head rts the crook of his neck. When they pull away, they hold on until their fgertips bsh apart. “We’re gonna do that!” says Sim excedly, pokg Madley Croft’s middle wh one fger and potg at the floor wh another.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="g4birw"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>It’s not Miley Cys’ flatable hotdog, but this kd of showmanship—<em>any</em> kd of showmanship—don’t e easy to the xx. Before they attempt “Lips,” a downright ltful new song built around big dms and a hntg morn classil sample, Madley Croft asks Sim, “Should we face forward?” She then turns to me to apologize; I’m watchg om a uch six feet away om their microphon. “We have to get ed to facg forward and not lookg at Jamie. I’ll look past you.” Faced wh a pafully timate dience, Madley Croft wc and reils om the high not.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw bodygrid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jwZEec"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embedasset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset"><div class="RponsiveClipWrapper-dQfRVo dIOQex rponsive-clip AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset" data-ttid="RponsiveClipWrapper"><noscript data-ttid="RponsiveClipVioContaer" class="RponsiveClipVioContaer-kIIuch hxZLNB"><vio aria-label="The xx Found Themselv Each Other on New Album I See You" toplay="" class="rponsive-clipvio" loop="" muted=""></vio></noscript></div></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>When they first emerged, the xx’s appeal me om mic that sound as if was directed towards an dience of one, om somewhere beneath mpled bedcloth. The timacy reflected their shared bond. They grew up together: Madley Croft and Sim played the same sandp as toddlers. Smh joed their gang at 11, when they started at the Elltt School Putney, South London. After several years of makg mic dividually secret, they formed the xx their fal year.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>The band looked perpetually shellshocked when they broke out as 20-year-olds 2009. They won the Mercury Prize for their first album, which has sold nearly 1.7 ln pi worldwi. Journalists mocked them for lookg like “suburban goths.” They did, but was ls style choice than a reflectn of their profound social anxiety.</p><p>“The Simpsons” creator Matt Groeng has been an arnt fan sce he picked them to play a ftival he curated 2010. “They averted their gaze, like a relatnship that’s ad but hasn’t que broken up,” he says wh a ep lgh, rellg their performance. “<em>However</em>, they livered the goods milly. They were jt <em>so</em> young, and shy, I gus. It certaly wasn’t arrogance.”</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embedasset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The xx Found Themselv Each Other on New Album I See You" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><p><em>I See You</em> is a bold, rhythmic revamp. It’s their first album to e proment sampl, which Smh nsirs his voice. Opener “Dangero” starts wh a strikg brass fanfare that immediately rais the stak. (The first time I h play, I thought I was listeng to the wrong rerd.) Madley Croft and Sim now wre together a room as opposed to via email, and talk openly about their songs. As a rult, they’re no longer sgg past each other, but sgg out, like ’80s dancefloor belters. In the past, their lyrics were always si their heads, wishg, observg, never dog; on <em>I See You</em>, they dare and scream and tt. “’Cse I uldn’t re ls/If they ll reckls/Until they are breathls,” Madley Croft and Sim sg over omo bass at the album’s start. “They mt be bld.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ie8dgp"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>The day before rehearsals, the xx are mped out their label XL’s homey Wt London headquarters. Their publicist slis back the door to the stylish lounge where they’ve been oped up all day. In the rner of the giant sofa, the black-clad tr are slumped on top of each other like a pile of puppi. They sprg apart and stand to shake hands.</p><p>Tryg to discs the strint lyrics the lounge is a different matter, met mostly wh hant platus about <em>growth</em>. We briefly broach quarter-life cris and Saturn returns, which tradnally occur around their age: Smh is now 28, Sim and Madley Croft 27. Sim nods enthiastilly—jt yterday he was discsg the astrologil phenomenon wh his mum.</p><p>For him, wrg lyrics has been ls about observg, more “workg off actual thgs that have happened.” Like? “Reachg an age where beg the dnkt person the room isn’t charmg anymore.”</p><p>From the torturo procs of makg their send album, 2012’s uneven <a href="><em>Coexist</em></a>, the xx knew that they had to pe their fort zone for the follow-up. (“Our fort zone is a very small place,” says Madley Croft, perhaps unnecsarily.) They rerd that album a stud that Smh built behd a McDonald’s North London, and didn’t let anyone else hear until they had to. “There was so much prsure om ourselv about: What do people like about ? What mak sound like ? What do we need to hang onto?” says Sim. “When we’re thkg like that, at our worst, we n end up soundg a b like a parody of ourselv.” They abstaed om lettg themselv eat at McDonald’s until they pleted the album. Some reward.</p><p>This time around, they had a vague plan to rerd far-flung plac. In March 2014, they brought an amb rincy to Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory. The were far om normal shows: Only 45 people attend each one, even though the hangar-like space uld hold hundreds more. “On the very last show we did, I looked up and saw Madonna starg at me a very long, fur-type at,” says Madley Croft wh disbelief. “I was tryg not to stare at her, like, <em>How am I supposed to perform? Am I supposed to brg more now bee Madonna’s starg at ?</em>”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw bodygrid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jwZEec"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embedasset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset"><div class="RponsiveClipWrapper-dQfRVo dIOQex rponsive-clip AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset" data-ttid="RponsiveClipWrapper"><noscript data-ttid="RponsiveClipVioContaer" class="RponsiveClipVioContaer-kIIuch hxZLNB"><vio aria-label="The xx Found Themselv Each Other on New Album I See You" toplay="" class="rponsive-clipvio" loop="" muted=""></vio></noscript></div></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL exEIep blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fJXcFF blockquote-embedntent"><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf kgVYDs"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj bqLbP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx hrUqLE"><p>A iend n sometim see you<br/>better than you n see<br/>yourself.</p></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedCred-sc-wBdfd fRBybp"><span>Romy Madley Croft</span></div></asi></div></blockquote><p>They rerd a b at the Armory, and then Marfa, Texas, and Iceland. The early ssns overlapped wh the makg of Smh’s <em>In Colour</em>, on which Sim and Madley Croft ma gut appearanc, cedg all ntrol to their bandmate. It led to the xx scrappg their old le that everythg they rerd had to be playable live, openg up unseen possibili. In a further effort to break out of their own self-imposed bubble, -manager and close iend Cai Pawson tablished “group therapy” ssns where they would review their work every month or so, playg to guts like Four Tet’s Kieran Hebn, Sampha, and Savag’ Jehnny Beth.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="a6aa0l"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>That November, they took a five-day road trip down the Wt Coast to Los Angel, joed by Pawson and Rodaidh McDonald, who -produced the new album alongsi Smh. They all troduced each other to tons of mic: Fleetwood Mac’s <em>Tk</em> and <em>Rumours</em>, Heart’s “Magic Man,” Ace’s “How Long,” Arthur Rsell’s <em>First Thought, Bt Thought</em>, soft rock tws the Alsi Brothers, and primive guarist Robbie Basho.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>L.A. was about havg fun and brgg that feelg to the new rerd. But, as McDonald adms, “Perhaps parts of that trip went a ltle too far.” There was a lot of drkg and partyg. They rented a Hollywood mansn and worked on songs like Sim’s “Repli,” a sperate missive about tryg to break away om your own self-stctive history. They went to Miley Cys’ birthday party, and ved too many people back to their place afterwards. “There were a few arguments,” says McDonald. “It was the pot where we had to take a step back and remember that we were workg on an album.”</p><p>When that ssn was over, the band went their separate ways for a while. Madley Croft stayed behd L.A. to experiment the pop h factory, knowg the unfaiary would be horrible—but that was the pot. She wrote wh artists like Rhye’s Rob Hannibal and OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedr. “I’ve been referencg the xx sonilly for three or four years wrg ssns,” says Tedr, who has worked wh nearly every morn pop star that matters, cludg Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. “And their ‘hntgns’ gets referenced at least every other ssn, whout qutn.”</p><p>Smh was by tourg and fishg <em>In Colour</em>. Sim stayed at home London and started to spiral. The trips were meant to nsolidate the band, but durg the gaps between rerdg, doubts began to form.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw bodygrid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jwZEec"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embedasset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset"><div class="RponsiveClipWrapper-dQfRVo dIOQex rponsive-clip AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset" data-ttid="RponsiveClipWrapper"><noscript data-ttid="RponsiveClipVioContaer" class="RponsiveClipVioContaer-kIIuch hxZLNB"><vio aria-label="The xx Found Themselv Each Other on New Album I See You" toplay="" class="rponsive-clipvio" loop="" muted=""></vio></noscript></div></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>It’s ually a bad sign when band members travel separately, but London late November, three days before the xx are due to start their tour Croatia, dividual taxi journeys and pub assignatns are the only way to crack their monstro schle. They seem embarrassed of the fs. The day starts early, ridg wh Sim om an upsle li near his home Hackney, East London, to a photo shoot. Sce we last met, the band ma their charmgly awkward but on “Saturday Night Live,” where they appeared alongsi Kristen Wiig, a shared hero, and tried not to smell her hair when they rerd promos for the show. They all say the actrs ma them feel more at ease, and turns out the feelg was mutual. “I was so happy that they played ‘SNL’ when I was hostg,” says Wiig. “It felt like a ltle gift to lm my nerv and also lose myself a b durg a night when you don’t stop nng around.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="dvxv6i"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>Sim feels good about the upg shows, he says cisively. They will be among the first he’s ever played sober. In 2014, when he me home om tourg <em>Coexist</em>, he realized that he lacked some fundamental life skills, like schlg and self-re. “I was gog out a lot wh the exce that I was celebratg—‘celebratg’—the past few years.” He curls his fgers and rais his eyebrows. “Jt fightg the ia of beg an adult. Some iends had started to mellow a b, and I didn’t want to.” He feared rponsibily and acuntabily. “And wh alhol, like a lot of thgs, ’s all or nothg for me. So right now ’s jt nothg.” It’s been jt over a year sce his last drk.</p><p>The r pulls around the back of St. Pl’s Cathedral. “I was the <em>last</em> person to thk that I wasn’t drkg… succsfully,” he murs, speakg nsired agments. “Everyone had voiced their opns.” He listened. “But the problem was that I was, I suppose, distancg myself, so I thought, <em>How would they know</em>?”</p><p>I tell him that sounds pretty telltale.</p><p>“Yeah,” he says, his soft, South London accent droppg even lower. “That’s real telltale. Romy and Jamie nontg me penntly was… the last straw.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>He had also started to feel secure about his ntributn to the band. “Never md that I wasn’t leadg a very healthy liftyle,” he says, growg quieter. “The fact that I wasn’t beg creative h harr—and kiddg myself that I felt more creative wh a drk me.”</p><p>In the months between rerdg ssns, as his iends were workg on their own projects, he beme paranoid about their relatnships, based on his own terpretatns of texts and emails. “When you haven’t seen someone for a while, ’s so easy to project and make your own ias about what’s gog on,” he says. “I always feel like the two of them are a step ont of me nfince and matury. I worried that they were gog a slightly forward directn, and I wasn’t.”</p><p>He lghs at the suggtn that he seems like the most nfint member of the band, rellg an old story about Smh: As young teenagers walkg home om school, Smh once turned to Sim and said, “I’m at peace wh the fact that I’m not gog to make big wav the world.” Sim lghs at the memory. “I was like, ‘That is the most prsg thg I’ve ever heard. Aim for the stars?!’ Now, Jamie’s silently nfint, he’s a solid, solid guy.” He rhapsodiz about Madley Croft’s drive too. “She’s the perfect example of, ‘If somethg sr me, I’m gog to do for the sake of growth.’ I don’t thk ’s her nature to lean to disfort, but she do .” He rolls the sleeve of his ffee cup up and down his palm. “And I’m jt tryg to fd my nfince a b.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="2g5x4v"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL exEIep blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fJXcFF blockquote-embedntent"><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf kgVYDs"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj bqLbP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx hrUqLE"><p>You n save some of your harsht moments for the people you love… wh me and Romy and Jamie, is so easy for feelgs to get hurt.</p></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedCred-sc-wBdfd fRBybp"><span>Oliver Sim</span></div></asi></div></blockquote><p>Right now, talkg to strangers sr him the most; the bravado he felt as a younger man has been replaced by social anxiety. But there’s an upsi to this awkwardns. “The tim when I actually do have, like, a <em>succsful nversatn</em>, I feel <em>really</em> good about and stays wh me as opposed to… kd of not rememberg,” he says. “While I’m stgglg more now, I am actually happier.” That said, he’s also wonrg about what happens when the album out. “One thg I n’t wrap my head around, to be hont, which mak me a b sad, is: How do I celebrate and let go a b? Which I’m still figurg out. I’ve got lots of help.”</p><p>There was no big renciliatn. Madley Croft and Smh me home to fish the album London early 2015. They had all worried about growg distant om one another but realized nothg had really changed between them—jt that after s of iendship, they still had to work at munitg. “I’ve noticed that you n save some of your harsht moments for the people you love,” Sim says. “I feel like wh me and Romy and Jamie—but pecially me and Romy— is <em>so easy</em> for feelgs to get hurt. Bee Romy knows exactly how to ph my buttons wh a short sentence, and likewise wh her.”</p><p><em>Coexist</em> closed wh “Our Song,” the xx’s love letter to each other. “All I have, I will give to you,” they sang, echog tradnal weddg vows. Knowg now how difficult the rerdg of that album was, the l sound like damage ntrol, glossg over a torrid suatn. Sim agre. In ntrast, <em>I See You</em> ends wh “Tt Me,” a song about the band that’s so btal, uld only have been wrten om solid foundatns. Madley Croft wrote all the lyrics and turned her back to Sim when she first played to him. “Jt take out on me/It’s easier than sayg what you mean,” she sgs, unwaverg. “Tt me, see if I break/Tell me this time you’ve changed/Tt me, see if I stay/How uld I walk the other way?”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="2s7fd6"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>Sim exhal and lghs, rellg the moment. “It was hard, but we had a hug. It was good for me to hear.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa gcRAJf body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw bodygrid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jwZEec"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embedasset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset"><div class="RponsiveClipWrapper-dQfRVo dIOQex rponsive-clip AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset" data-ttid="RponsiveClipWrapper"><noscript data-ttid="RponsiveClipVioContaer" class="RponsiveClipVioContaer-kIIuch hxZLNB"><vio aria-label="The xx Found Themselv Each Other on New Album I See You" toplay="" class="rponsive-clipvio" loop="" muted=""></vio></noscript></div></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>Several hours later, the band’s publicist livers Madley Croft to a Wt London pub. While she was away L.A., she didn’t ially realize how bad thgs were wh Sim. “You have a bt-iend tun that he’s not really 100 percent, but there’s a pot where everyone’s drkg and ’s que easy to not realize if someone’s actually not a good place wh .” She hat. “As wh any iend gog through anythg, really affected me bee I re so much about him and I jt want him to be happy.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p><em>I See You</em> sounds like a nontatnal tle, though ’s meant as a kdns, taken om a le the Velvet Unrground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror”: “Please put down your hands/’Cse I see you.” “A iend n sometim see you better than you n see yourself,” says Madley Croft. “There were so many tim when I wanted to tell Oliver—and I tried—‘You’re amazg and there are so many thgs that are great about you.’ Sometim you have to fd that yourself. And I really feel like he has done that, which I’m really proud of him for.”</p><p>For Madley Croft, the ma theme sce <em>Coexist</em> has been g to terms wh her parents’ aths. Her mum died when she was 11, her dad when she was 20 and on tour Paris. Two weeks later, the xx had their biggt gig to date at London’s Shepherds Bh Empire, which she played to honor his support of the band. A month later, she lost a who was more like a sister. “The crazy highs and lows,” she rells. But the highs were a great fort to my fay, and for me.” In a cel irony, her unrolved grief rurfaced durg a ntented perd of downtime while makg the new rerd.</p><p>“Brave for You” is the first time she’s wrten about her parents. “Though you’re not here/I n feel you there/I take you along,” she sgs over Smh’s shudrg wash. It ends on a paed note: “There are thgs I wish I didn’t know/I try my bt to let them go.” She prais Smh for makg her heartbroken mo to somethg more celebratory. Usually she leav her fay to listen to new xx mic whout her, but she recently sat down and played them the whole album.</p><p>By throwg herself to the thgs that once sred her, Madley Croft has emerged fearls. “Which is nice bee I ed to feel unfortable llg for room service—they’re strangers!” she lghs. “That’s que extreme! But now ’s not a problem.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embedasset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset"><div class="RponsiveClipWrapper-dQfRVo dIOQex rponsive-clip AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset" data-ttid="RponsiveClipWrapper"><noscript data-ttid="RponsiveClipVioContaer" class="RponsiveClipVioContaer-kIIuch hxZLNB"><vio aria-label="The xx Found Themselv Each Other on New Album I See You" toplay="" class="rponsive-clipvio" loop="" muted=""></vio></noscript></div></span></div></figure><p>The publicist returns wh Smh and a wag b driver. The r will drop off Madley Croft for dner wh her girliend, and take Smh to a iend’s Thanksgivg celebratn. They grab five mut together, dissectg Smh’s impendg move. Tomorrow he’s leavg his longstandg home the by central hub of Old Street for quieter Clapton, East London. In ls than 36 hours, they’ll be on the plane to Croatia. This morng, they put a rerd-breakg seven nights at the 5,000-pacy Brixton Amy on sale. It’s now 6:30 p.m., and they’re all sold out.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="dl1y4p"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>Although Smh is the olst member of the xx, he says he feels the least mature. His big personal breakthrough has been learng “to try and talk about everythg, which I never ed to do, and nobody my fay did, eher.” He’s more open than he once was, though he still answers qutns wh the reticence of a boy beg asked what he did at school that day. “It mak me feel good, even if I’m sayg somethg that is not necsarily makg me look good. The fact that Romy and Oliver will listen, and I will listen to them, is really fortg.”</p><p>His nfince slips out via a few offhand ments and wryly raised eyebrows. Of their “SNL” performance, he says they were all exced to meet Kristen Wiig—though he’d already met her 2012, when she turned up at one of his sets New York Cy. I rib him about there beg none of his tramark steel dms on <em>I See You</em>, and he cracks a wry se: “Jt Bieber’s dog tropil hoe.” And of the dance purist backlash agast <em>In Colour</em>, he says he unrstands their grievanc. Ultimately, though, “I’ve played the biggt clubs the world, so…”</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dKTKKM" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embedasset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embedrponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The xx Found Themselv Each Other on New Album I See You" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><p>When Smh was tourg <em>In Colour</em>, he had to be told that his bandmat were feelg distant om him, “which is often the way,” he says. But he was keenly aware of Sim’s issu wh alhol. “It was a learng curve for everyone,” says Smh. “They say that you have to realize for yourself, and he did, and he was <em>so</em> good about . It felt very grown-up, much more grown-up than I felt.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Manager Cai Pawson says Smh, “a classic stoic Englishman,” unrtimat himself. “Jamie was the glue that perd. He would e back om tourg and be the one who’d go out and rcue people. For someone like Jamie, who’s still tryg to piece together his own emotnal map, that was a tremendo amount of prsure. Jt bee someone hasn’t que worked out how to accs their own emotns don’t mean they’re pable of alg wh other people’s emotns.”</p><p>One song that didn’t make the new rerd was “Naive,” which Sim surprised his bandmat by wrg more hontly than he was willg to be real life. “Everyone’s tryg to save me/Can’t they see I’m havg fun?” he sgs, filled wh sarsm and self-loathg. “Somethg’s wrong, but I choose to be naive.” In rponse, Smh sampled a le om a Drake song: “That’s the wrong thg to do.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="adslot adslot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="sbjknq"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body bodyntaer articlebody" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="bodyner-ntaer"><p>Zagreb, Croatia’s Boćarski Dom is a n-down sports hall by day and an even ls spic venue by night. There are no bathrooms. Outsi, by the thorough secury search statns, there’s a wall of unl Porta Potti—a bracg experience 35 gree weather. A bootlegger sells some fantastilly misguid T-shirts pictg the xx styled like “Fay Guy” characters. You n smoke doors, and everyone do.</p><p>In preparatn for the band’s set, two stagehands spray and bsh the stage meticuloly, like a one-sid curlg team. A black cloth off Smh’s giant plexiglass setup, which rembl a bar that Carrie Bradshaw would vis the earlit seasons of “Sex and the Cy.” The bottom two feet of the un are mirrored, reflectg the first few rows—the xx want fans to know they n see them.</p><p>At 9:33, the lights drop. The bass richets around the venue’s bare brick walls. Madley Croft and Sim bob around each other theatrilly. They stand at the ont of the stage and stare down the crowd, ignorg the fans who are wagglg pi of <em>In Colour</em> for them to sign. When the glacial synths of “Brave for You” strafe the room, the stage floods red, and Smh’s transparent box flash wild whe lights. It’s thunro and undnted. As soon as Madley Croft livers her heartbreakg fal l, bows and stands back, Sim sh over to hug her tight.</p><p>Jt as he did the Kgs Cross rehearsal room, Smh starts up the “Gosh”/“Shelter” mash-up. “And I’ll cross oceans, like never before/So you n <em>fe-el</em> the way I feel too,” Madley Croft belts. Her slow dance wh Sim fally gets s public but. 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class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-emimage rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Joni Mchell Announc New Rari Album, Shar Early Court and Spark Demo" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src="></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-emntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX irmJOI bric SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-embric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">News</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM kHqDAk summary-em-trackghed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp 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class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-imageimage" src="></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-emntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX irmJOI bric SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-embric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">The Pch</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM kHqDAk summary-em-trackghed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ lfbrty summary-emhed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">8 Overlooked Rap Mixtap You Need to Hear</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-embyle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY jCKKIz summary-embyle"><div class="summary-embylentent"><div 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IS JAMIE OLIVER GAY

Is Jamie Oliver Gay? There has been much speculatn about whether or not Jamie Oliver is gay. The celebry chef has never explicly said anythg about his sexualy, but there are a few clu that suggt he might be gay.

He also is very close iends wh several openly gay celebri, cludg Ellen DeGener and Portia LexnGerAlthough Jamie Oliver has never nfirmed or nied the mors about his sexualy, the speculatn ntu. Regardls of whether or not Jamie Oliver is gay, he is a hugely succsful chef and rtratr. Whether he is gay or not, Jamie Oliver is a talented chef and a succsful Jamie Oliver Sick?

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The TV star said was all ‘women and gay men’ who would attend his live okg monstratns 20 years Oliver has said men “hated” him and would be abive the early years of his reer, bee he ma women realise that their male partners should ok for them TV chef and rtratr, who rose to fame wh his first TV seri The Naked Chef 1999, said “women around Bra ma me succeed”.

“If I did a monstratn ont of two and a half thoand people, and I ed to do four tim a day, for a week, so 40, 000 people … It was all women and gay men. I know ’s been a recurrg theme, hell they even had a whole episo dited to the speculatn, but are they gog to make Oliver gay? He don’t seem unfortable wh (as seen the latt episo), so maybe he will e out as gay or bi?

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