XL Recordings to release epic compilation album

Album will feature the likes of Adele, Jamie xx and M.I.A

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Tuesday 5th August 2014 by Alexandra Pollard

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XL Recordings have revealed plans to release compilation album, featuring artists spanning the length of their history as an awesome label.

The label, which has managed bands including The White Striipes, Adele, Jamie xx, Thom Yorke and SBTRKT, will release the album as a vinyl boxset, CD and digital download. Something for all the family.

In the sleeve notes to the album, which is called Pay Close Attention, XL owner Richard Russell writes: "XL Recordings is a collaborative endeavour, and many people have contributed to its evolution. In the song 'Out Of Space', Liam Howlett of The Prodigy provided a blueprint when he sampled Kool Keith of Ultramagnetic MC’s rapping these words: 'Pay Close Attention'.

"And whilst XL has never had any outside ownership, Gil Scott-Heron advised me not to even consider XL an “independent”, because everything is connected."

The album is accompanied by a newly launched website, which is comprised of a series of immersive and interconnected timelines that allow you to explore the work of artists who appear on the album.

Pay Close Attention is set for release on 25 August, and is available to pre-order now. The full tracklist is below.

Pay Close Attention track list:

Disc 1

1. SL2 - DJs Take Control
2. The Prodigy - Out Of Space
3. Awesome 3 - Don’t Go (Kicks Like A Mule Mix)
4. Liquid - Sweet Harmony
5. Jonny L - Piper
6. Roy Davis Jr. featuring Peven Everett - Gabriel (Live Garage Version)
7. Dem 2 - Destiny
8. Nu-Birth - Anytime
9. Basement Jaxx - Jump N’Shout
10. Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
11. Wiley - Igloo
12. Various Production - Hater
13. Giggs - Talkin The Hardest
14. SBTRKT - Wildfire (featuring Little Dragon)
15. Jamie xx - All Under One Roof Raving

Disc 2

1. The Prodigy - Firestarter
2. Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away
3. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
4. Devendra Banhart - I Feel Just Like A Child
5. Ratatat - Seventeen Years
6. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
7. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
8. Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me
9. Radiohead - Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
10. Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers
11. The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
12. Jai Paul - BTSTU (demo)
13. Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart
14. The xx - Angels
15. Sampha - Too Much
16. Vampire Weekend - Step
17. King Krule - Easy Easy
18. Adele - Rolling In The Deep