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“Loud Places” by Jamie xx featuring Romy
From the EP In Colour Preview (2015) Featuring Romy
“Loud Places” by Jamie xx featuring Romy appears on 9 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2015 and 2024. It was first released in 2015 on the EP In Colour Preview. Its best result is #14 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #174 alternative song of 2015.
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"Loud Places" came out in March 2015 as one of the singles from In Colour, Jamie xx's solo album, and it pulls his bandmate from the xx, Romy Madley Croft, out front to sing and play guitar. Jamie produced, recorded and mixed it himself for Young, and premiered it alongside "Gosh" on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show two days before release.
In Colour roams across different stretches of his life, and this one belongs to the present tense. Romy's voice is quiet and close, almost diaristic, until the chorus throws the doors open onto a gospel-bright sample of Idris Muhammad's 1977 "Could Heaven Ever Be like This", a lift that Thump's Angus Harrison found especially poignant with Muhammad gone less than a year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015 | 103 |
| 2015 | 31 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
| 2015 | 39 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 14 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015 | 90 |
| 2015 | 31 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 296 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2023 | 680 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 787 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 601 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
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