James Blake

Submitted by Glyn Lewis on 17 February 2013 - 9:43pm

Selected from various 2011 album of the year lists

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Artist:

James Blake

album-ID:

a_114

Nationality:

Year:

2 011

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Unluck*The Wilhelm Scream*I Never Learnt To Share*Lindisfarne I*Lindisfarne II*Limit To Your Love*Give Me My Month*To Care (Like You)*Why Don't You Call Me?*I Mind*Measurements

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_43

Now-num:

Spotify-URL:

10ezzZAhOon51wDVhXgB77

Grooveshark-URL:

James+Blake/5431838

Short-title:

jamesBlake

nominator-ID:

u_1

Meeting-date:

Monday, 28 May 2012

MusicBrainz-URL:

e2c51226-996b-4f7c-9bdf-d52d63c46a26

Wikipedia-URL:

James_Blake_(album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

james-blake/james-blake

Discogs-URL:

James-Blake-James-Blake/master/307676

Allmusic-URL:

james-blake-mw0002095213

BBC-URL:

dhpn

guest-list data

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74

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Like a waterfall in slow motion

2-5-6-11

9-10

Ambitious stuff and, in places, impressive – he gives all sorts of crazy treatments to these compositions, studio tricks you've never heard before, and you've got to admire that. Deep down these are moderately conservative keyboard-based singer-songwritey crooney pieces, which he twists and distorts with fevered randomness. He does get a bit carried away and I think loses control of some pieces in his compulsion to dick around, particularly towards the end, but on balance it's a successful experiment and certainly a memorable effort.
70

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Blake's 7

2-6

The boy's clearly got talent. A bit of a heavy listen at times, but some creativity at work.
68

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
14

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Quite dreadful. Who does he think he is?

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