The xx went quiet in 2018 and each member spent the hiatus somewhere else entirely — Oliver Sim released the solo record Hideous Bastard in 2022, Romy put out Mid Air in 2023, and Jamie xx released In Waves in 2024, his first solo album in almost a decade. None of it sounded like a reunion was coming. Then 'Waited All Night' showed up, the first track with all three of them on it since 2017's See You, first performed live during Jamie's own Glastonbury set that same summer almost as a rumor made real.
The actual reunion show didn't happen until April 2026, in Mexico City, eight years after their last full tour together, and the festival dates that followed — Coachella, Primavera Sound, and now Lollapalooza — read less like a comeback tour and more like the band deciding, all at once, that the pause is over.