Blake, James / James Blake
| Album: | James Blake | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Blake, James | Added: | Feb 2011 | |
| Label: | A&M Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2011-02-13 | Pull Date: | 2011-04-17 |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 17 | Apr 10 | Apr 3 | Mar 27 | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 27 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 14, 2023: | Eclectic Circus
Limit To Your Love |
4. | May 18, 2014: | Everything.
Wilhelms Scream |
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| 2. | Jun 08, 2014: | Everything.
Limit To Your Love |
5. | Apr 13, 2014: | Everything.
I Never Learnt To Share |
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| 3. | May 31, 2014: | Stringless Balloon - Victoria + Scuttle Toes
Limit To Your Love |
6. | Feb 04, 2014: | second meeting (sub)
I Never Learnt To Share |
Album Review
Rasmus Rygaard
Reviewed 2011-02-14
Reviewed 2011-02-14
British dubstep wunderkind James Blake leaves most of the dubstep elements behind and delivers what can best be characterized as a modern take on the classic soul album. Bon Iver meets Mount Kimbie.
FCC: Clean
Try: 2, 11, 1, 6
1) 3:04 * Soft opening, deep kick and falsetto vocals. Clicky hi-hats. Culminates with playful vocal effects and grainy synth.
2) 4:36 ** Reverb-drenched drums and vocals. Repetitive structure, builds and builds, soaked in static.
3) 4:52 Starts out acapella, buiiiiilds. Several vocal loops interwoven. Drums about 2 minutes in, builds even farther. Gritty synth crescendo.
4) 2:43 Vocoder acapella. Very slow with plenty of long pauses
5) 2:59 Continues where 4 left off. Same melody on top of a front-porch guitar loop and simple kick.
6) 4:40 * Lovely Feist cover. Starts out as piano/vocals and adds deeeeep bass at 0:55. Might damage old transistor radios. Wonderful
7) 1:54 All acoustic again. Improvised piano opening. Warm, cute ballad
8) 3:54 Weird, warped vocals, fast-paced synth trickles. Shy dubstep.
9) 1:36 Another piano ballad, dissolves into electronic limbo and high-pitched vocals.
10) 3:35 Soft Mount Kimbie-esque dubstep. Very organic, plenty of indecipherable vocal samples.
11) 4:21 ** Chamber synth-pad-pop for 2011. Starts simple then layers Blake’s vocals on top of themselves again and again. A one man choir
FCC: Clean
Try: 2, 11, 1, 6
1) 3:04 * Soft opening, deep kick and falsetto vocals. Clicky hi-hats. Culminates with playful vocal effects and grainy synth.
2) 4:36 ** Reverb-drenched drums and vocals. Repetitive structure, builds and builds, soaked in static.
3) 4:52 Starts out acapella, buiiiiilds. Several vocal loops interwoven. Drums about 2 minutes in, builds even farther. Gritty synth crescendo.
4) 2:43 Vocoder acapella. Very slow with plenty of long pauses
5) 2:59 Continues where 4 left off. Same melody on top of a front-porch guitar loop and simple kick.
6) 4:40 * Lovely Feist cover. Starts out as piano/vocals and adds deeeeep bass at 0:55. Might damage old transistor radios. Wonderful
7) 1:54 All acoustic again. Improvised piano opening. Warm, cute ballad
8) 3:54 Weird, warped vocals, fast-paced synth trickles. Shy dubstep.
9) 1:36 Another piano ballad, dissolves into electronic limbo and high-pitched vocals.
10) 3:35 Soft Mount Kimbie-esque dubstep. Very organic, plenty of indecipherable vocal samples.
11) 4:21 ** Chamber synth-pad-pop for 2011. Starts simple then layers Blake’s vocals on top of themselves again and again. A one man choir
Track Listing
| 1. | Unluck | 7. | Give Me My Month | |||
| 2. | Wilhelms Scream | 8. | To Care (Like You) | |||
| 3. | I Never Learnt To Share | 9. | Why Don't You Call Me | |||
| 4. | Lindesfarne I | 10. | I Mind | |||
| 5. | Lindesfarne Ii | 11. | Measurements | |||
| 6. | Limit To Your Love | . |