"Loud Places" is a song by English

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producer

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, with featured vocals from

Romy Madley Croft Romy Madley Croft (born 18 August 1989) who releases solo music as Romy, is an English musician. She is the guitarist and co-vocalist of the xx, and she released a solo album, '' Mid Air'', in 2023, which peaked at No. 15 on the UK Albums Ch ...

, his bandmate in

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. It is the eighth track on Jamie xx's album '' In Colour'' and was released as one of its singles on 27 March 2015. A music video for the song was released on the same day through

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. The song peaked at number 55 on the

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and number 62 on the UK Singles Chart.

Composition

Tracks from ''In Colour'' spans across different years in Smith's life, with "Gosh" and "Loud Places" representing where he was at the moment. The chorus sampled

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's 1977 song "Could Heaven Ever Be like This". This use of sample was said by ''Thump''s Angus Harrison as "particularly poignant" when Muhammad's death was less than a year before.

Release

On 25 March 2015, Smith premiered "Gosh" and "Loud Places" on

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Music video

The official music video for "Loud Places", lasting five minutes and four seconds, was uploaded onto Jamie xx's

channel on 27 March 2015. It was directed by Simon Halsall with JB Babenhausen and produced by Craig Dixon. In the video, Smith and Croft can be seen riding

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s while getting covered in

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. Smith shared: “Before we made music together, from the age of like 13, Romy and I used to go out and skate."

Track listing

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References

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