XYLØ

XYLØ formed as an electro-pop brother-and-sister act featuring Chase Duddy on production, drums, and songwriting alongside vocalist and songwriter Paige Duddy. Their family already possessed deep musical roots, with a grandfather who had earned recognition as a jazz drummer, studio percussionist, and head of the drum department at the Los Angeles College of Music. Both siblings followed that lineage by enrolling at the same institution, bridging their ten-year age difference through shared musical pursuits that led them to begin shaping material for a debut single in 2014.

The track “America” surfaced in 2015, drawing immediate parallels to Lana Del Ray and Lorde before landing in a PacSun commercial that featured Kendall and Kylie Jenner. The placement drove more than 1.6 million SoundCloud streams and secured the top position on Hypemachine. That same year also saw the arrival of “Afterlife,” the duo’s first headline date supporting Oh Wonder in Los Angeles, and their signing to Sony Music Entertainment. Early in 2016 they confirmed plans for an introductory EP that would gather every prior release; the collection appeared that February under the title America, after which they launched a U.S. tour. An anti-Donald Trump statement arrived next in the form of “Fool’s Paradise,” and later in 2016 the pair contributed vocals to the Chainsmokers’ College EP cut “Setting Fires.”

Further singles followed in 2017 with “I Still Wait for You” and “Alive,” then in 2018 with “Heaven Only Knows,” “Tears & Tantrums,” and several others. Early 2019 brought the hook-driven “Nothing Left to Say.”