James Blake James Blake
Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Blake uses neosoul keyboards, blip beats and layered snips of his heart-starved warbling to create eerie, softly roiling slow-jams."
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Vinyl LP Details
- Released: April 16, 2011
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Republic Records
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - p.75
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Blake uses neosoul keyboards, blip beats and layered snips of his heart-starved warbling to create eerie, softly roiling slow-jams."Spin - p.75
"Using lo-fi digital techniques to play up rough edges and raw emotion, Blake's rare talent is to make music so naked seem unshakable."Uncut - p.98
4 stars out of 5 -- "Blake takes from dubstep an awareness of space and silence; he appreciates the power of a perfectly weighted pause."Uncut - p.33
Ranked #21 in Uncut's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "Blake's debut album revealed him to be an innovative singer-songwriter....Spare, beat-strewn and strikingly plaintive."Magnet - p.37
Ranked #20 in Magnet's '20 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "His itchy productions were born with an innate sense of agitated drama, the tension that lies the shadows of a pregnant pause or fermata rest."The Wire - p.46
"Blake is an instrumentalist, digital synthesist, producer and engineer too, and -- most crucially of all -- blurs the boundaries between these roles."CMJ
"[Blake] reaches unplumbed emotional depths using the mostly untapped potential of electronics to reach the soul."Q (Magazine) - p.113
4 stars out of 5 -- ""Blake has an uncanny ear for what to leave out, and how absence can play on the imagination."Paste (magazine) - "With a stripped-down, uncluttered sound, Blake's creations are hauntingly beautiful. His voice echoes soulfully throughout..."
Clash (Magazine) - "His are fragile, beautiful songs floating over warmly alien, sometimes seemingly formless musical structures yet it's an effort borne through unconventional levels of space and patience."
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Tep and the Logic
- 2.Unluck
- 3.The Wilhelm Scream
- 4.I Never Learnt to Share
- 5.Lindesfarne I
- 6.Lindesfarne Ii
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Limit to Your Love
- 2.Give Me My Month
- 3.To Care (Like You)
- 4.Why Don't You Call Me?
- 5.I Mind
- 6.Measurements
- 7.You Know Your Youth
Product Info
- UPC: 602527554723
- Shipping Weight: 1.25/lbs (approx)
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