James Blake - Debut LP

yeah i study there.

i should have been more specific, history of art, fine arts etc, not history etc

I also have studied at Goldsmiths and live in the area... There is a high proportion of dickheads, but thats university for you...

I'm personally not really looking forward to the album so much, I like his use of vocals when they are part of the mix more, not sure how I feel with them so forward, it's a subjective thing however..

His 12"s last year and 2009 were fantastic though, 'Bells Sketch' especially... found them really exciting, like dilla and burial meeting head on or something...

so post-dubstep is just bon iver?

This isn't post dubstep. It's not dubstep anything. His other stuff is, but this isn't. It's fucking terrible.

i actually think this is pretty good. dubstep is, for the most part, fucking terrible.

  On 1/18/2011 at 3:56 AM, remy marathe said:

dubstep is, for the most part, fucking terrible.

ding ding ding ding ding ding idng ding

  On 1/18/2011 at 2:48 AM, Enter a new display name said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDTsoNiT2Y

Just watched this on the ISO50 site, just awesome! Really looking forward to the album.

  On 1/18/2011 at 2:48 AM, Enter a new display name said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDTsoNiT2Y

oh my. There isn't enough trashbears in the world for that number.

  On 1/18/2011 at 2:48 AM, Enter a new display name said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDTsoNiT2Y

wowwwwwwww

mfw the only good song on this release is a cover song

  On 12/23/2010 at 12:32 AM, ruiagnelo said:

anyone loving I Mind?

 

love the groove and the way he instrumentalizes his voice

does the backing vocal say "pussy" or am I imagining things?

I recently got the deluxe version of this album with the enough thunder ep as a bonus disc. it's good stuff, but I hope he still takes the time to make and release stuff closer to the cmyk ep.

that's awesome. I guess most of the tracks on the jb lp should be easy to remix seeing as how sparse they are. you can pretty much just add stuff.

I'm getting major flashbacks / lols from this thread this is the worst album of 2011 / ultimate twink music

I still more or less enjoy this album. It gets sorta tedious about halfway through once he runs out of actual melodic ideas and different "soulful" white dude voice tricks though.

I enjoy this not as dubstep but as a very 21st century approach to the singer/songwriter thang. If I tried to consider it dance music, I probably wouldn't enjoy very much.

Anyone heard the re-release of this with an additional disc?

For the record I enjoyed the album, especially some of the tracks, but it didn't blow me away.

I like this album, and I prefer it to his more dance-focused EPs. Though it does kind of lose steam halfway through, as Ascdi observed. The lo-fi character was annoying initially, but had become pretty endearing. It's an interesting contrast to the hi-tech sound of most contemporary club and electronic music.

This track is where it's at. The harmony is particularly amazing. I don't know too many acts today in electronic music who could bust out these kinds of chord changes or such a density of counterpoint.

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  On 10/28/2011 at 4:55 PM, xxx said:

Almost a year on and the only thing that ever stays in my head about James Blake is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ehllI7Jts

I am purposely not listening to it because it will bring on another week or month of a General MIDI carousel in my mind

this has the distinction of being the "Youtube Video with Comment I Most Agree With of 2011" because it is

LOL AS FUCK

alexgillespie 4 months ago