Although January tends to be a bit of a depressing month – Christmas is gone, no-one has any money, the weather is dreary etc. etc… – it does have one thing going for it: new music. January is typically the month where everyone starts the ‘big in 2014’ scramble – so there’s always a lot…
My round up of the new singles available for digital download this week. The Aston Shuffle – ‘Can’t Stop Now’ Australian house duo The Aston Shuffle release their pop-house number ‘Can’t Stop Now’ which at least puts a slight twist on the familiar and overused formula of 2013 with an enjoyable lead male vocal and…
Fresh from his well-received second album Overgrown (read my review here), James Blake has announced six live dates in the UK this September. James Blake will play: September 18 – Glasgow, O2 ABC 20 – Manchester, Ritz 21 – Birmingham, Institute 22 – Oxford, O2 Academy 24 – Bristol, O2 Academy 25 – London, O2…
‘Haunting’, ‘moody’, ‘atmospheric’. All words that are heavily associated with James Blake’s music, so this new Nabil Elderkin directed video for the title track of Blake’s new album is right on the money: Read my 4-star review of James Blake’s second album Overgrown here.
James Blake – Overgrown {rating} Buy: Overgrown Who is James Blake? He’s a London born singer-songwriter who also happens to be a pioneering electronic music producer. He almost single-handedly created the ‘post-dubstep’ movement a few years ago before understandably trying to distance himself from such a horribly reductive pigeon-hole. What do I need to know…
With his second album Overgrown just days away, James Blake has released a video for the previously released track ‘Voyeur’. The video has been made in conjunction with Blake’s own label 1-800 Dinosaur and was animated by Ferry Gouw. Watch it below: Overgrown is out on 8 April via Atlas/Republic.
With just two weeks to go before the release of his second album Overgrown, James Blake has today revealed another glimpse of it by offering a live version of album track ‘Our Love Comes Back’ for free. The free download follows lead single ‘Retrograde‘, the dub and normal version of the mighty ‘Voyeur‘, a stream…
Following on from the ‘dub’ version of ‘Voyeur’ which hit the web earlier this week, James Blake has released the proper album version – and it sounds absolutely massive. If there’s anyone out there who is still unsure as to why a new James Blake album is getting people excited, then just listen to this:…
Well this is a new one. Usually we just get a an ‘album trailer’ and a couple of singles to bide us over before an album gets released, but James Blake just took it all to another step by releasing this 15 minute ‘preview’ of his new album Overgrown. While it’s hard to get a…
The steady drip of new James Blake material continued today with not one but two new tracks from his upcoming second album Overgrown. The first new song to find its way onto the internet was a ‘dub’ version of album track ‘Voyeur’. But as this was ripped straight from the radio, it didn’t take long…
