James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven

Asking to Break

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Tell Me

Fall Back

He's Been Wonderful

Big Hammer

I Want You to Know

Night Sky

Fire the Editor

If You Can Hear Me

Playing Robots into Heaven

jimmy and the blakes

This one is a nice surprise and the production is superb

Just watched this fun video with papa eno. Not familiar with James' work but will check it out because the fragments sound interesting.

haven't really listened to much james blake since overgrown really.

but this is a solid album. wonderful production.

His best since his self-titled album for sure. Glad there's no crooning over piano ballads.

I have never been able to get into this guy tbh. His early dubstep works were too skeletal for me and the singer songwriter thing he started doing after his early EPs turned me off completely. I wonder if this is going to change my mind.

  On 9/22/2023 at 9:16 AM, thumbass said:

I have never been able to get into this guy tbh. His early dubstep works were too skeletal for me and the singer songwriter thing he started doing after his early EPs turned me off completely. I wonder if this is going to change my mind.

Exactly the same for me.

This might actually be... good??

Lovely album, 'tell me' is my fav track right now

Yeah, this is pretty decent. I'm glad he finally took a break from the sappy piano crooning and did an album's worth of the good stuff that would occasionally pop up on b-sides and one off releases. 

Fav stuff from him since "If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead"

This is the Blake I like. The sounds are not as barebones as his early stuff and there are no whining ballads. What we are left with is a great combination of soulful electronics that can still hit hard in some places and great emtional singing. My favorite is currently I Want You To Know but Fall Back, Tell Me, Big Hammer and Asking To Break are stand outs to me as well. Thanks James!

What a great year for music

Jimmy did a nice in-depth interview on the Tape Notes podcast. Talks a lot about his production process and breaks down some of the tracks on the album. Very cool to hear some of the early modular jams that eventually made it on to the album. 

https://tapenotes.co.uk/project/tn122-james-blake 

Here's a clip, talking about Big Hammer:

Nah, not for me. Didn't get past the third track. Can't stand his voice, no matter what he does with it. Terrible. Also played Big Hammer 'cause folks are talking about it a lot. That's also terrible. And that's putting it nicely