'Coexist' is the second studio album by the English indie pop group The xx.
The album features a minimalist musical style and experimentation with tension, simple chord progression, sketchy guitar patterns, slight grooves, keyboard ostinatos, and fading motifs. Coexist is about heartbreak, loneliness, and intimacy. Croft and Sim's lyrics address failing relationships and the changes in romance with inner monologues and metaphors.
The album's title was inspired by their idea for the cover artwork, which depicts an iridescent oil spill in the shape of an "X", a variation on the group's white-on-black "X" logo. Croft compared the mixture of oil and water to her holistic view of the group, saying in an interview:
"You see a puddle of petrol on the floor — it can look sort of beautiful with the colors that come through it. I looked it up on Google or whatever, and it said oil and water don't mix, they peacefully coexist? And that's what it is when you see those colors. I liked that idea: those two things coming together to make something more beautiful than they are. And I liked the idea of us three coming together; only when the three of us are together, that's when it exists."
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