Alasdair McLellan
On the day of its release, The xx have let us in on the inauspicious origins of the title of their third album I See You.
“We couldn’t pin point exactly at the time when we were trying to name the album, when we were trying to wrap it up, what the overriding theme was, but I just thought about our friendship and our relationship,” they told Zane Lowe on Beats. “We definitely didn’t see each other for quite a while, and that was quite hard on all of us. It made me really miss, I felt like something was missing.”
“In the place where we named the album and we came up with the visual theme for it, Jamie had rented a car, it was a summer in London, we were driving around listening to Frank Ocean’s album sitting there and saying, shall we do it, shall we just call it ‘I See You’, yeah cool let’s just do it.”
There’s lots of touring coming up behind the album, starting in South America at the Festival Estereo Picnic in March.