James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

it's not lol terrible but i struggle to really hate the lol terrible stuff, it just sounds like a drain

finally:

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/02/187519311/first-listen-airhead-for-years

this could be the james blake/mount kimbie album that people wanted this year (at least those of us who were into the earlier records).

it's gorgeous...so many of these tracks appeared on that electronic explorations mix from a few years ago, but it's nice to hear final masters.

Lots of people seemed to enjoy James Blake on Later last night.

Well, a few people on Twitter and a (not easily pleased) friend who emailed me about it.

i want to tell his drummer to sit up straight

I used to worry about Beth from Portishead's posture ...

im loving this mount kimbie album on first listen

james blake. haha. i like his stuff but man i just get this self-serious vibe. i dunno, maybe that's the joke.

i really like the james blake song "the wilhelm scream" but that's also a really weird title. like i know that is referencing the famous and oft-used hollywood sound effect, but why?

also how come whenever anyone does a study about which songs/artists are more popular in one state vs. another, james blake is always like the musical act whom new yorkers listen to disproportionately.

james blake is very good live which is one thing he has over those other elec acts he came up assc with 2010 era

^ very true statement. i was never really a fan of him until i saw him live at pier 26 last year.

Mount Kimbie and King Krule are really underrated 'round these parts.

Just sayin'.

i didn't like krule at all first but realllllly came around to him via cold spring faultless youth. do they have more material together besides those cpl tracks?

Just remixes.

probably his poppiest song ever but i'm into it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_GfzTjNkk

I'm pretty excited for the album after hearing that.

'Timeless'

This sounds like one of his older tunes. Like, first album-ish. I'm into it.

new album out at midnight (Greenwich time?) tonight

the three new songs are nice enough (esp. 'Radio Silence') but are in a very similar mode, hoping for some curveballs on the album.

And it's on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1WyrGCkFDlH1xPadZ5qTkL

Wow, this album is really long and really slow. Very dark and down.

Definitely not what I expected. Will definitely take a few listens for everything to sort itself out.

kinda worked perfect this morning on the train ride, helped that it's been raining and drab here for like a week.

it is a little long though for sure

Yikes this is horrible

Horrible for sounding like a James Blake album, or horrible compared to other James Blake albums?

I kind of liked his other albums, so I think it's pretty horrible by his standards. Really dry and dull and formulaic.

people are losing their minds over this, and i think i really hate it

Yeah, I only listened to it once. I liked it, but it seemed to be a little much; too samey. Like I said, it could possibly sort itself out upon further listens, but I would officially call my initial reaction "underwhelmed."

I hope my life is a jam

this sounds like a load of barely-bothered demos. an oddly loveless, and painful - at nearly 20 tracks - sounding album. though ive only heard it once. so maybe it reveals more with repeated plays (it did seem to get a bit better in the final third or thereabouts). almost like an album designed to irritate you with how samey it is. maybe its his way of showing he has no designs on being a popstar after his little post-beyonce brush with fame. its more like an album-dump you expect from someone brand new, rather than someone on their 3rd album.

why didn't Rick Rubin tell him to cut it down to the essentials, i thought that was his job?

This is very good hangover music.

Listening to the sample on I Need a Forest Fire reminds me that I wish Blake stuck to producing tracks like CMYK rather than trying to sing

James Blake is amazing. Come at me, bro

Specifically, his self-titled album. Deep crescendos, melodic, sad. Is there anyone like him? Nah, there isn't. It's incidiniary in its own far out, beautiful way. Have a beer on me.

Mt. Kimbie is the ****, too. Well, Crooks & Lovers is dope (just to keep this thread on topic, sorta, I guess).

I like his production and arrangements, can't stand his voice. Particularly as many other male singers working in similar milieu seem to have since adopted a similar affectedly quavery style.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55d6058ae4b0b63503024ae4/t/5964f1171b631b9e66de590c/1499787606456

First listen now. Fucking goosebumps good. 'Blue Train Lines' — oh my god.

I had pretty high hopes coming after the last record and this one, just on first impression, is already resonating extremely heavily.

sweet!

Man, this album is so good.

I liked the first Kimbie album, skipped the second, don't really get this one. It songs seem very structureless, and they seem to be trying quite hard to be so which I don't find appealing. Maybe I need to listen more carefully.

And it's got the can't-be-arsed style of singing I hate.

It seems like an improvement on the last one, and I respect them for moving on from their early style, but I'm just not into it either.

Crooks & Lovers still sounds amazing in 2017.

Blue Train Lines sounds so much like Young Fathers it's distracting. I mean, I love Young Fathers, but still.

even with the charismatic and enthralling performance of King Krule I couldn't get past the fourth track on this, in theory it's something I should enjoy but it was just so boring and life is too short

Best JB track in awhile?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYXM3uz1bjM

It's closer to his earlier approach of using his performances as grist for processing rather than making them the focal point.

That song is one of the best things he's done. Like Radiohead if they were good

That song sounds nothing like Radiohead.

It’s more like Kraftwerk if they were good.

new album is really nice, definitely his best since the debut, maybe even better than that?

he's finally come into his own as a songwriter, not just a producer, and all the collaborations are great and well integrated unlike say that terrible RZA one from Overgrown

talking about James Blake's Assume Form of course, though Dominic Maker from Mount Kimbie did co-produce most of it

"Mile High" is very Forest Temple-core