"X & Y" a constitué mon album favori de cet été, j'avais perdu de vue le groupe depuis "Don't panic" et le meilleur est toujours là. Leur son avait déjà quelque chose de remarquable, notamment un côté doucement onirique directement sorti de l’enfance. La voix du chanteur du groupe a toujours quelque chose d’apaisant et d’euphorisant même : une voix monocorde qui s’élève par paliers sans jamais tomber dans la rupture. Tout ceci se retrouve dans ce nouvel opus, les chansons « Talk », «Speed of sound », "Hardest Part" ou « Message » sont réellement magnifiques. Le son est encore plus magique. Ils n'auront rien perdu en route, au contraire...


Oh brother I can't, I can't get through
I've been trying hard to reach you 'cause I don't know what to do
Oh brother I can't believe it's true
I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
Oh I wanna talk to you

You can take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done

Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how you feel?
Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak
And they're talking it to me

So you take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
Or do something that's never been done

So you don't know where you're going and you wanna talk
And you feel like you're going where you've been before
You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored
Nothing's really making any sense at all, let's talk
Let's talk, let's talk, let's talk.