Recorded and mixed at Our Studio, London between November 2011 and May 2012 with additional mixing at XL Studios. Smith approached its recording as he would remixing a song, working with a demo of bass, guitar, and vocal parts at his own studio and incorporating house and techno elements. The songs are characterised by droning harmonies, [24] simple chord progression, keyboard ostinatos, [25] ringing guitar, [9] resounding reverb, [19] slight bass grooves, and programmed beats. Label executive Adam Farrell of Beggars Group, Young Turks' distributor, cited it as "one of the most significant album premieres we've ever done".

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Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick praised Smith for "somehow widening and deepening the sound without intruding", [8] and Puja Patel from Spin credited him for "both stretching and magnifying the gritty beauty of his vocalists". It encompasses a record label, pressing plant and online magazine, and collaborates with artists and musicians to create stunning audio-visual shows. Meanwhile, the band progressed from playing intimate venues to becoming an international must-see live act, curating their own festivals and collaborating with symphony orchestras.Far Out Magazine praised their album as one of the “ 20 greatest self-titled albums of all time,” up there with Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. In May 2012, the xx played three intimate shows in London, where they previewed material from the album.

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Rather than expand on their debut's sound, the xx wanted to minimise the songs they recorded for Coexist and mute certain elements during its production. In the United States, it debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 copies sold in its first week.The fact that it’s been 10 years and reflecting on that time passing and the music belonging to other people in those 10 years – Coexist means something to us – but the connections that people have to those songs now.