The xx‘s in-house producer and solo beatmaker has opened up about his forthcoming plans.

“We are working on some new songs right now, we have a couple of demos and some sounds. After finishing this tour, we will be doing some separate things, I’ll produce and DJ, but we will get back together after New Year’s and start recording our third album.”

– Jamie xx, speaking to Swedish festival website Festivalrykten; presumably those “separate things” include his recent work with Four Tet. The xx have previously revealed that their next album will arrive in 2014/15, with “rough demos” already laid down.

[via Consequence Of Sound]