Never let it be said that the weather doesn’t know what it’s up to at Glastonbury. From the sun finally coming out during Brian Wilson’s appearance in 2005 to the rain quite rightly deciding to ruin Catfish and the Bottlemen’s Other stage set earlier today, the rapidly changing climatic conditions may have less to do with fortune and more to do with mischievous, scheming gods than we like to think.

And never have those gods been more on their game than during Jamie xx’s Park Stage set. As an artist whose DJ slot doesn’t exactly scream visually engaging – this is a man, in a white shirt, playing some records – he’s fortunate enough tonight to find himself backed by a beautiful peach sunset that slowly bleeds into violet and mauve as the set itself unfurls.

That’s all you’re getting from the visuals department here, because Jamie xx is a man who takes letting the music do the talking to new extremes. With barely a nod to the crowd and none of the rumoured guest appearances from his xx bandmates, he opens up with the Persuasion’s Good Times before segueing into his own version – I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times), featuring Young Thug and Popcaan. From hereon in it’s a journey through sound featuring piano house highs and bass vibrations so hearty that you worry about impending queues for the long drops.

Unlike his debut solo album In Colour, Jamie xx’s live set offers no feelings of ghostly detachment and instead aims for the build and release of the 90s house records that inspired it. As the likes of Gosh spiral into giddy, synthy euphoria, and nighttime steals the last bit of colour from the sky, you realise that the music isn’t the only thing that’s slowly been building throughout: the crowd seems to have doubled in size too, and rightly so.