Unluck.

Apr 27

James Blake - Dlm

Superb piano ballad off new album, Overgrown

Apr 9

Untold - Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix)

Jan 5

James Blake - Curbside

This James Blake would win in a fight cause he has a fucking tennis racquet. Look how angry he is.

Both as a standalone single and a piece of James Blake’s catalog, “Curbside” is entirely, idiosyncratically unclassifiable.

-Larry Fitzmaurice (Pitchfork)

One of Pitchfork’s better reviews up today on Jimmy B’s Love What Hapenned Here EP that dropped a month or so ago on R&S.

I’ve been a fan of Love What Hapenned Here for a while… but Curbside sounds absolutely out of this world.

In a good way.

Jan 1

“Bit by bit, it’s starting to feel like people are building on the promises Burial’s Untrue created way back in 07’ - achieving the wrongly-assumed impossible - injecting emotion into electronic music.”

Mthrfunkr (post-dubstep tumblr)’s discussion of the hype behind James Blake and what he’s doing.

But I want to talk about Burial

The comment “achieving the wrongly-assumed impossible - injecting emotion into electronic music” is a bit unfair on the electronic music scene. Four Tet’s Angel Echoes, Jamie XX’s Adele remix, Floating Points’ K+G Beat to name just a few are all great examples of an artist giving their genre a bit of emotion. However what sets apart Burial’s work is his ability to sustain a mood for an entire LP, not a couple of songs.

Untrue reeks of atmosphere; I find the album immediately takes me to rainswept midnight London. Now obviously I don’t expect that is does the same for everyone who listens to it, but I remember hearing Giles Peterson interviewing LA beatmaker Flying Lotus on the topic of Burial and he said something along the lines of “It’s something I didn’t really get ‘till I came to London - it makes sense here.”

Untrue is still as good as it ever was, yet I really don’t think we’ve had a release since that has touched, or will touch quite the same place in the soul. Electronic musicians have and continue to imbue their records with whatever emotion they want - but Untrue is so much more.

ps. Recommended listening:

- Burial

Endorphin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtEBEVC0HUc

Untrue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmW_r3XK2HA

In McDonalds (My personal favourite): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06FiSFtX6G0

- James Blake - I Only Know (What I Know Now)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsJ09RhqZw