Showcasing her debut solo album, last year’s Mid Air, the xx frontwoman escapes the elegant restraint of her band with a set full of euphoric rhythms and unambiguous hymns to her wife
, is somewhere on stage, veiled in a thick fog of dry ice. Amniotic beats throb in the distance. We’re nearing the end of the first night of her two London Club Mid Air sets in whichon a bank of electronic gear, Romy has been singing of new love and nursing some old hurts, all to thumping 4/4 percussion, rave stabs and the odd house piano. It’s a masterclass in bittersweet feeling, delivered through euphoric rhythm. Suddenly, a familiar voice takes up Romy’s lyrics.
One of the many understated pleasures of the xx was hearing two queer singers duetting, sort of at each other, but past each other as well. The introverted ache in their respective voices stood in for all sorts of trials, not just romantic pain.highlight, closes Romy’s set with a vitamin shot of wise empathy .
But these are minor cavils: Romy’s Club Mid Air is both elegiac and therapeutic. In the midst of it, one of the most gooseflesh moments has no beats at all., or “deep meaningful conversation”, is an interlude that finds Romy, atop a swirl of atmospherics, intoning “just breathe” and “don’t look down”. It’s as though she’s still geeing herself up for this leap of faith into love, into club pop, into showing up as herself.
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