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The term "ethereal" is used in attempt to describe a sort of otherworldly, heavenly beauty in music that is difficult to grasp. Ethereal music usually sounds lush, hazy, spaced out, with distant synths, echoing guitars, and soaring vocals. This typical ethereal sound can be found in many genres such as ambient, new age, neofolk, dream pop, shoegaze, darkwave, and (obviously) ethereal wave.

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Fantasy
by The xx

For the desired effect
Would you come back August or June, June
And I hate that tomorrow's too soon
But this collision, came mid bloom

Better built to resume
I'll see you August, see you June
I'm building higher than I can see
I want fantasy

Don't rest with the less
I'm burning to impress
It's deep in the middle of me
I can be fantasy

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Oliver David Sim, Romy Anna Madley Croft, James Thomas Smith, Baria Qureshi

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Comments from YouTube:

KipperTheArt

7y↑342

I use this song to test any new headphones I buy.

Korri Almengor

🤣🤣

Hero & Poloolpp

1y↑1

The xx AND DT 770 gang

Ballal Mondal

KipperTheArt xx

witzsch

2y↑8

I use it to test my brain.

Julie P

I still do it

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Cody Watts

7y↑98

at their concert it just vibrated through my whole body

Bob Kaley

4y↑126

Let's be honest here, the majority of the xx songs are like the perfect songs to make love to.

Ali Indus

3y↑12

Let me think about it. Yeah you're right.

Tiramisu

4y↑18

fucked last night to this song ayyyy

Kayla Dudley

5y↑50

I can't believe i went so long without knowing about this band's existence.

J

42w↑1

is this what it is like to be a 2000's kid

Gauthier Rigaux

3y↑3

Better late than never mate

Kyrinky

4y↑2

Agree, although it makes me catch feels easily, so I don't know if that is a good thing.

MCB TEX

6y↑108

For the desired effect
Would you come back August or June, June
And I hate that tomorrow's December
But this collision, came mid bloom

Better built to resume
I'll see you August, see you June
I'm building higher than I can see
I want fantasy

Don't rest with the less
I'm burning to impress
It's deep in the middle of me
I can be fantasy

Rumer Priestly

5y↑1

Came to the comments looking for exactly this. Thank you!

Azea Stevens

7y↑86

"This song is about unrequited love or wanting so badly to be in a relationship and that position to have someone to love, and love in return ('I'm burning to impress') be comfortable and yourself around that person completely, basically by saying ('I can be fantasy') its trying to prove all these emotions and feelings you want to feel and can share with someone."
(This is what someone else said it meant so it isn't in my own choice of words but I thought if I shared it on here you guys would get a better meaning of what this song is about.)

Jan Hromek

6y↑28

Yesterday I watched the 'Confessions' movie. Kind of surprise that I heard there one of my favourite songs from The xx…

David Vera

49w

I am number 4 - shelter

Ari Aloush

7y↑103

i blasted this song in my car with my friends 500$ speakers.... they broke

JoannaDark KM

2y↑9

glitch in the matrix

Lan Krownet

2y↑8

"your car" "your friends speakers"... your car... your friends speakers... ????

FrankyDee63

7y↑19

where do i find more songs with that really low rumble which kicks in at 1:22

Your Love

28w↑2

Mac Miller - 1 threw 8

DeDirtyMonkey

2y↑1

nuages - dreams

Tomas Pino

FrankyDee63 Rittz-wishin samples the whole beat ... might want to check it out

janae m

Pierce Fulton-Old Man & The Sea (or and is or) I forgot lol but that song might have what you're talking about :)

Cesar Corrales

Dredude- weedstorm

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Alex Dasilva

5y↑25

1 Threw 8 brought me here.

Matthijs Smit

+Alex Dasilva Ayyy me too

Chris Leggat

6y↑53

Definitely used this song to check the sound in my car.

J

42w

you should also get some sine wavs playing at certain low freq, then the true test begins

Eacy C

+Chris Leggat exactly just use this song to see if something has a good bass xD

Fleet Foot

4y↑27

Play this song in the car and your car is literally shaking from all the bass.

ajdrig

4y↑48

Some one should make a 10 hour loop of the bass.

Giulio Z.

6y↑21

The best bass frequencies

TheN1njaPerson

5y↑1

@***** deep ass bass. some people say its a myth.

lux

i dont really know tbh

Marcin Kisała

@lux bledstone what Hz value is the brown note

lux

5y↑1

It's no brown note but it's great none the less!

lux

5y↑54

This song it makes me think of my death..

Jay Brew

4y↑45

The Bass is literally too deep to play on my computer speakers haha

Kiznish a

I've got a pretty decent set of 2.1 computer speakers and the poor sub is getting a workout.

Brandon Buthmann

5y↑9

Like landing randomly in the middle of the ocean at night descending towards the bottom of the abyss where there is light mysteriously

Isac Lindh

Brandon Buthmann this comment was exactly how i was feeling this song

Yael Teenage-Tragedy

6y↑103

falling in space. x

sana el bouzidi

exactly :D

Emmy Dahle

5y↑72

Wake up, get ready, go to school, learn unnecesarry shit that has nothing to do with my future, go home, smoke something and get hig af while listening to this song. Gives me a break from my life. Thank you.

Abilio Rodrigues

3y↑1

That's it ..
The truth

Fly ;and fuck

Dillon T

3y↑7

Emmy Dahle Don't stress it. I'm 21 and wish I had learned more in school. Knowledge is power so make the best out of your situation! One Love ✌

CAIL STEPHENSON

6y↑21

Mac Miller anyone lol

Olympus

4y↑31

Just blowed off left side of the speaker in my car but it was worth it daaamn !!

sam S

5y↑63

Each of us lives, dependent, and bound by our individual knowledge and our awareness. All that, is what we call “reality”. However, both knowledge and awareness is equivocal. One’s reality might be another’s illusion. We all live inside of our own fantasies…

Into the void

in short, it's called relativism

JuryKing

Haha exactly ^^ lol

Nori Nori

5y↑3

+sam S I think he got scared that you would go insane because of the song lol

sam S

5y↑8

@JuryKing its actually a quote, google it :D

JuryKing

5y↑8

Why are you writing like that. Stop getting so emotional over the song.

Lunares

5y↑11

Confessions brought me here ..

Juno Callow

4y↑8

I remember that this was the first song I listened to by them. Damn.

void

7y↑33

This song is the ultimate headphones test. :3

BOWERSKITTEN

4y↑5

omg this music is from " confessions - kokuhaku " no ? OAO

ForsytArtz // ΦορσυτΑρτζ

3y↑6

thanks to my art-teacher for showing me this awesome piece of music

Laura Aguirre

Best art teacher ever

Myers Storm

31w↑2

I want fantasy...

2019-2020? <3

Tanner Timothy

6y↑11

The XX is a great band. Love this song, along with the rest. It is also cool that Mac miller sampled this in his mixtape "Macadelic" I threw 8

João Filipe

9y↑3

i can't stop listening this...

Kjfdrt Kd

4y↑47

THIS IS THE BEST SONG IN MY LIFE

Kjfdrt Kd

4y↑6

awmesome

Liam Robbins

4y↑20

Listen to this in the car, change the speaker setting to full bass and thank me later.

Marcus Worsham

4y↑4

im scared to play this in the car cause i need my speakers

Niko de vuyst

😎

POA

38w↑1

one of the best use of this music is in the japanese movie 'Confessions (2010)' climax. The movie is one of the best revenge movie ever made.

In_My_pants _

6y↑36

should of been in the last of us trailer

In_My_pants _

6y↑2

@Kenneth Bonifacio yea what of beeen good for ps4

Kenneth Bonifacio

6y↑2

I AM. GROOT!

So true man, so true.

Alexis Demar

6y↑6

this song reminds me of swimming in the ocean at nighttime. absolutely amazing

Sido Lanters

“what happened in detail i can hardly remember, all i know is that we kept merging into one another. i was you, you were me. finally you somehow caught fire.”

— franz kafka

B Hoova

31w

that underlying sweet baseline starting round 1:30 - damngood to concentrate and work in deep meditations! who knows producers of such beats ALONE, beatàcapella so to say... ?

유기농콩

4y↑7

Check your heartbeat.

Radoslaw Wspanialy

4y↑6

holy balls, i just played this at full volume on some beats headset, my brain is vibraiting, my soul is shaking haha

Inanna Jade

4y↑3

Such sad lyrical content... Describes my situation to a T. :(

Your Excellency

9y↑1

WAIT, THIS IS MY NEW FAV SONG!!! IT'Z SOOOO ETHERIAL, LIKE ENTERING A NEW LAND, I WANNA PRODUC SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!!

Tyy Rope

5y↑2

Rittz used this instrumental in his song "Wishin". Check it out, he really had me Amazed.

John

5y↑13

someone loop the bass part pls

Adan Santoyo

5y↑9

Confessions anyone ?

Panda Fitness

4y↑6

I am mildly lactose intolerant, when I drink milk everybody suffers from my toxic avenger duck quack farts. I feel safe to express myself in this serene video. I feel so liberated here

m

me! confessions so fkin brilliant!

LupoWolf

+Adan Santoyo me ;)

Zack Hage

5y↑10

To me this song is about how different life choices lead to different consequences, bringing fantasy to reality
Maybe I'm the only one though

yasmine nairat

4y↑4

I LOVE THIS MAN'S VOICE :') ♥

JaMMze

5y↑21

....It's deep in the middle of me....

Zamya Grier

+ghostv8 same

Ghostv8

4y↑6

just as I read this i heard it

StayHigh LSD art

1y↑1

Goosebumps
"Winter 2019 Namaste AlexSunAngel Stay High Carpe Diem MAke Your Day Happiness Universe Space vibes galaxies open space goosebumps weed lsd cocaine best day EVER. I prayed today and did meditation. I cried on the song Shallows by Daughter straight to my favourites, this will go too. Jesus Christ life is beautifull and wonderfull, today i watched Moon and stars and the sky above with clouds in winter, so beautifull. I wish you all the best and good luck to you, just you need to know you are beautifull, smile, dance snd sing HaPPY" NEW YEAR 2019 AlexSunangel Fb insta Oles Okolita #LeoforPresident

Inked AntiVirus

5y↑13

Are there more songs like this? The bass, just so amazing!

Olivia June Daly

@Gabriel Godbout or diamonds or leanworld by yung lean are both fantastic

Gabriel Godbout

4y↑1

i like yung lean - yoshi city

Olivia June Daly

+Dalhee Kim yo awesome suggestion I loved the song!

Dalhee Kim

Try this one: Mike monday 'When the rain falls'

John Vu

5y↑6

+Izaya-Orihara if you want heavy bass try xxyyxx

StayHigh LSD art

2y↑1

"Fantasy XX Fractals im' so small" goosebumps" AlexSunangel fb Oles Okolita

Trevin Hughes

4y↑6

The best song by them in my opinion. Bass is incredibly epic and loud. Last half of this song is the best xx.

Alyssa Goidich

7y↑8

I swear i could sleep to this music its so peaceful and great

StayHigh LSD art

2y↑1

this is my favourite music while on drugs.

Elias Galloway

5y↑15

what color do you see in this song

Gabriel Godbout

4y↑2

greens and blues

Kevin Osman

4y↑5

+Elias Galloway I see a black visual with violet rays glowing on an isolated street, with an eerie dark-red tint.

Chris MacDonald

+Elias Galloway fuck off

Chiranthie Karunaratna

4y↑2

+Elias Galloway Black background with purple lines as he sings; when the bass starts street-light neons

JaMMze

4y↑12

+Elias Galloway black. just a dark void with black ripples

isus kist

4y↑16

I am so proud of my speakers :D

Jess Louise

Yeahhhhh

marouan gamhor

when that bass comes i feel it inside me, like someone else trying to get out of me and break all the rules... that's some great music man

DJ Disc Jockey

Whenever I listen to this song I just imagine myself floating inches above the sea bed, in the pitch black slowly drifting along the bottom

Pablo Larreategui

4y↑1

wow this people sent really high even without smoking! amazing! beautiful! pretty relaxing and a good companion in not so happy times :) "Peace and Love"

valeria a pena

2:08 the rhythm of shelter (maybe I had said, something that was wrong can I make it better, with the lights turned on)

Nephyr

If anyone knows how in the hell they made this bass, please tell me :D Also studio headphones FTW

Khazuki

Woah...I never heard the bass before...it's AMAZING how shit my headphones are. :/

Andrea Romero

6y↑2

Rest in peace to my dearest headphones

Andrei jj

do you think headphones get broker for listeting to this kind of songs?

doomsdale91

this song feels like..when im about to light up my bowl and i have that feeling of peace all around me. like i just melt into my environment its like i dont even exist.

Michelle Garcia

2018, smoking a blunt relaxing the mind . Minute 1:38 gives me life ❤ 🎸!

John Doe

6y↑2

that bass just made my ears collapse

Prince_of_00

6y↑1

I love discovering awesome new music... These guys rock!

Scarlet Styles

The acoustics are so wonderfully haunting, I close my eyes and I'm somewhere else entirely while listening to this song

David Sansun

This on full volume through my headphones almost killed me. Like that scene in Scanners where the the guy's head blows up.

Lilibeth C

1:38 She begins to sing. (soon) I prefer skipping there. :3

Fuhhh

1:22 and everything after is all I really like about this

CrypticMind

I remember hearing this song for the first time while in an intense making out scenario with my ex and it's a shame I can't listen to it anymore without feeling incredibly let down and sad lmao

Tom Goodman

Listening to this while being high feels amazing. This song is so euphoric, it makes you feel like you're surfing on the clouds in the sky.

Yannick

Rittz - Wishin' Haunted beat,with haunted lyrics :)

nik o

I love driving at night to this song and watching all the city lights dance away into the night sky as i slowly drive by.

Cablecar18

I listened to this while playing "Ravenholm" in Half-Life 2. With only the gravity gun. My heart was racing. Felt like I wouldn't get out. Like I'd Be trapped Forever

Eli Priestley

i need to try this in my nan's car, one day i was playing hyperballad by björk and the bass in the chorus was soooo frickin intense it shook the car and that is nothing compared to this, wouldn't be suprised if the car exploded

Renato Breckenfeld

alguém pode me explicar o que significa isso, que eu to meio perdido e a primeira vez que vejo e não entendi nada.. GRACIAS..

frank vigan

I found this song after so many years, fren

Deeplomat27

10y

I love this track...for a few hundred times :) The XX are just amazing!!!! greetz from munich

Cameroon Hall

Honestly, the most euphoric song I have ever heard in my life. Definatly floating in space right now...

Nornen Heimdall

10y

when i listen to this i imagine a girl coming in a great hall of stone and she hears him singing...pretty cool and kinda creepy the same time...but i like it pretty much

Alex Myers

7y↑2

Listen and Enjoy <3

Alamir K.

5y↑2

I hear this song in Tribute to a friend about James Gandolfini!

Keiron Bartlett

That brought me here too :)

Abraham B

great music ! nostalgica y tan esperanzadora a la vez...

Andrea Stojanovska

7y↑1

This is the sexiest song EVER! :3

LadyAlaska

I totally cried when I heard this in Kokuhaku--when the clock started reversing the explosion, I felt so sorry for Shuya...because that would just be a fantasy. He'd never be able to take back that explosion.

Rob P

1:17 seems like a good place to skip back to to keep it repeating lol :)

amandadicassiaa

1:22 my head and my heart will explode.

Jani Rojas

7y↑8

Just enjoy the Vibe.

Yvonne alba

Im really sad Thev've changed the image and athe sexy videos from them.! I cant find my fav vids anymore
:(

WOWlover1341

HOW COULD some one dislike THISSSSS omg so fricken AMAZING

Scott Anderson

With my beats headphones on the bass vibrations jus amazing and reminds me of dead space too xD

Gabyyy

I thought i was the only one amazed by the bass at 1:22. <333

Germ dontdie

wow... i just tripped balls on this.. i swear i've been in that forest before in my life.. i think i need to go think about life now.

Gaby P

My mom thought i was running a meth lab in my room and that i was on meth. I said "Mom, this ain't Breaking Bad."

Gabriel Zotelli

5y↑17

Quando ouço essa música eu sinto como se eu estivesse em um mundo submerso, e essa música é a tentativa de comunicação de seres que vivem na superfície