This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Releases
Jamie xx finally releases single
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 7 June 2011
Back last September we told you that Jamie Smith of The xx would be releasing a solo single, entitled ‘Far Nearer’ via Numbers. We said, and I quote: “The exact release date for the single has not yet been announced”. Well, I thought we should probably inform you now that that release date was yesterday. We do like to give you this information upfront.
Commenting on the track when he premiered it on John Kennedy’s show on Xfm back in September, Smith remarked: “It’s a tune I made on one of our short breaks from touring and I was eager to make some new music. I got a steel pan and made this track”.
You can hear ‘Far Nearer’ and b-side ‘Beat For’, here: