JAMIE XX Announces 10th Anniversary Edition Of In Colour Album

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of In Colour - Jamie xx’s landmark 2015 debut album - the London-based music, producer and DJ today announces a limited-edition picture disc version of the LP. Featuring the album’s iconic artwork directly on the vinyl, the In Colour 10th Anniversary Edition is available to pre-order now here and will ship on 14th November via Young.

Originally released on 29th May 2015, In Colour quickly established itself as a modern classic - a kaleidoscopic journey through UK dance culture that continues to resonate with fans and critics alike. It received widespread acclaim upon its release: Pitchfork awarded it Best New Music, hailing it as “a dazzling and deeply emotive record that reimagines the club as a space of memory, euphoria, and introspection.” Rolling Stone praised its “masterful blending of genres and eras,” Mixmag crowned it their best album of 2015, while NME called it “a modern masterpiece.” The album appeared on countless more year-end and decade-end best-of lists, cementing its status as one of the most important electronic releases of the 2010s.

Featuring standout tracks like ‘Loud Places’ (featuring Romy), ‘Gosh,’ (with its epic Romain Gavras-directed music video) and ‘I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)’(featuring Young Thug and Popcaan), In Colour struck a rare balance between underground credibility and crossover appeal. It earned Jamie xx multiple GRAMMY, Brit and Ivor Novello Award nominations alongside a shortlist for the 2016 Mercury Music Prize. A decade later, In Colour endures not only for its production brilliance but also for the emotional depth it brought to the dancefloor – a record that transformed a personal love letter to UK club culture into a global, generation-defining statement.

To mark the anniversary, Jamie joined BBC 6Music’s Nick Grimshaw yesterday for a special 10 Years Of In Colour show and a wide-ranging new interview that covered the inception, making of and response to In Colour. The BBC have also shared an exclusive Jamie xx Archive Collection of interviews and sessions from over the years, which are available to watch and listen back to here

Meanwhile, Jamie xx’s hotly-anticipated follow-up album In Waves was released on 20th September 2024 via Young, debuting at number 5 in the UK albums chart. It features an incredible list of collaborators including Honey Dijon, John Glacier, Panda Bear, The Avalanches, Robyn, Oona Doherty and his The xx bandmates Oliver Sim and Romy, reunited as a trio on record for the first time since 2017’s I See You album. In a run of rapturous reviews, the album was described by NME as “immaculate”, Clash as “a masterpiece” and Rolling Stone UK as “an album that reaches for – and achieves – pure euphoria”. Arriving nine years on In Colour, the album sees Jamie replicating the emotional crescendos and thrilling volatility of an almost mystical night out. Created over a four-year period ushered in by his much-loved 2020 Essential Mix, and peppered with periods of self-reflection, a global pandemic, the blinking reemergence into the strobe light, and a newly discovered love of surfing-as-escapism, it’s an album that's on course to match the heights of its globally-acclaimed predecessor.

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