Juxtapozed with U

Juxtapozed with U was the band's thirteenth single and the first from Rings Around the World, released on 9 July 2001. It reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart. The band produced it with Chris Shaw at Monnow Valley Studio in 2000, and it runs 3:08.

It was inspired by Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, and by the work of Marvin Gaye and Caetano Veloso. It was planned as a duet. The band asked Brian Harvey of East 17 and Bobby Brown, and both said no, so Rhys sang the verses through a vocoder to sound like a second person. He said the lyrics address social injustice, house prices rising and people left behind by the super rich. He thought the polished pop sound subversive against the macho guitar music of 2001, and the band tried to make it as plastic as they could. Pitchfork's 2001 review called it a genre exercise favouring AM soul over tropicalia, and the heir to Young Americans and Fame.

NME ranked it number 14 among 2001's singles, and Pitchfork put it at 346 in its 2009 list of the top 500 tracks of the 2000s. Two videos were made. One, by Dawn of the New Assembly/H5, is computer-generated and follows a couple driving around New York. The other, by Fukme 99, appears on the DVD and shows people in cardboard costumes. In 2015 the Guardian's reviewer described it live as a vocodered Busby Berkeley vibe that inspired bouts of ballroom dancing.