James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

the music literally sounds like an unfinished demo

Well I know you hate James Blake so I don't expect this to trigger a Damascene conversion.

this is fucking excellent. hes still working in this uncomfortable way for me though, never coalescing into whatever it is i suspect hes capable of. despite whatever collective will seems to be goading him towards some undefined achievement. just the parts he's assembling, never convincingly in the same place. the venn diagram never overlaps. the bells sketch, a man with a piano, a voice behind a door in a dark corridor. it has something to do with the sound of a city, a future that never was, whatever little music is left dying - heard from another room. this is the good though. really good. not really a song and not really a track. half there. a reflection of something in your peripheral vision. the vocals are almost uncomfortably intimate, never honeyed or sweet, he sings like an older man. the groove doesn't know how to slink into the room. i'm not really getting at why i cant stop listening to it. i guess its always kindof cheap to think about that. it doesn't even get stuck in my head but as soon as its over i want to hear it again. it never actually finds a groove but it hypnotises me anyway. the slow deliberative movements. the shape of each heavy vowel.

the raw/"demo" quality is part of the appeal for me, i totally get how it's a love it or hate it thing though.

funny, i can't think of too many artists whose early material (esp the untold remix and CMYK ep) sounds more polished and slicker than what came out later.

kate nash went from "foundations" to "under-estimate the girl"

never forget

feel like this dude has been mining the same melodies for a lil while

no argument, but they're good melodies.

http://pitchfork.com/news/49687-brian-eno-rza-guest-on-new-james-blake-album/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aeKFyr4SQ

Eno collab:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?3aNRCoOsWb8

Whoops. It's in here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3aNRCoOsWb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aNRCoOsWb8

that is pretty great, his extremely soulful voice and these machine-like circling drum patterns, that juxtapoition is quite interesting.

and now mount kimbie goes house:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-1aeKFyr4SQ

i love digital lion

OMG THIS NEW MOUNT KIMBIE TRACK!!!

it's been a couple of years since i even thought about mount kimbie but that track is p sick.

free mp3 live version of track from new album: our love comes back (live)
sounds quite spiritual almost as if it was recorded in a church

that is james blake of course...

live he doesn't do much for me? the audio trickery is a large large part of what i like about most of his songs

really? for me it is quite the opposite. the trickery doesn't do shit for me. his voice and the pauses do it for me.

i can get that, just doesn't work for me

album's out. thoughts?

rza track is awful

the new mt kimbie single is fucking dull as well

oh shut up the new mount kimbie track is flawless, you nitwit.

the distorted radio rip from ben ufo's show sounds way more exciting than the clean studio version (re: mount kimbie)

james blake record is out next week, in the u.s. anyway?

"made to stray", lex? i like it, obvs, as i wrote about it

yeah. in which tedious dubstep producer "goes house" and makes a tune less exciting than...literally ever house producer in existence. BORING BORING GREY MOPEY NONSENSE

so wrong but i love you anyways lex. i wanna hear your thoughts on overgrown tho, should be entertaining

i briefly considered listening to it but i'm not actually a masochist

the single is just terrrrrrrible

the distorted radio rip from ben ufo's show sounds way more exciting than the clean studio version (re: mount kimbie)

― shit tie (Jordan), Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:20 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this is sadly otm

I hate when that happens :/ it seems to be a kinda common thing

like at this point I kinda can't even imagine the new Jessie Ware track w/o "POM POM POM POM POM SPECIAL DELIVERY"

The new Blake sounded good to me, though the RZA was a bit jarring and the rest resolutely mellow, if exquisitely engineered.

this album is a hot mess

like WTF is this RZA song doing on it

the cover art for this is hilarious

anyone? besides the rza feature and some dumb lyrics i'm feeling it. too bad you can hear those lyrics, i still love his voice as an instrument and a sample-source, but it gets a little cloying when it's out in front for too long.

this feels like the natural album for him to make at this point, combining all his different approaches/vibes into one sound. 'voyeur' is a jam, and there are still lots of smart little production choices all over (most of his tricks are familiar by this point, but who cares). actually it seems like most people don't care...poor JB.

the cover art for this is hilarious

― Number None, Friday, April 5, 2013 4:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's on his #menswear shit

poor jamie woon i think you meant to say xp

so this album is objectively bad but it's friday night and i'm not minding it

'egyptian song' is the last radiohead song i liked iirc so 'retrograde' can get a pass too

lol just as i posted that he sang "DIGITAL LION" and my laughter broke me out of my incorrect stupor

man i love retrograde but damned if I can find another toehold for this album on the frontend. trying to get all the way through it is a bit of a chore which prior blake has never been. kinda a bummer.

new mount kimbie track is terrible :(

but mostly because of king krule, so there's still hope. is this what he does on his own records?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLozoX1RdnM

dooooooope imo

^^^^^

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http://www.npr.org/2013/05/19/184809601/first-listen-mount-kimbie-cold-spring-fault-less-youth