Why James Blake Is The New Phil Collins NME Article

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http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog= ... &tb=1&pb=1

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[joeflo123]

I find a quote from the comment section of this article most fitting to sum it up.

"Potentially the most reductive and ridiculous feature the NME's ever published"

Im not hating on James Blake, i love the guy.

But it just seems a VERY bold and irrelevant statement to make

[johnkimble]

Phil Collins

[bass_culture]

'[Blake] still made a palpable shift from the forbidding clicks of his early EPs to a kind of mournful, blue-eyed soul that echoes ‘Face Value’’s studied pathos. Even his radio breakthrough was a cover of Feist’s ‘Limit To Your Love’

I wondered how long it would be until people basically started saying stuff along the lines of, "James Blake has sold out, why doesn't he make strange uncommercial music anymore blah blah blah??"

To those people I direct them to the tracklist of Blake's mix for Electronic Explorations done in May 2009, before he had even released 'Air and Lack Thereof' on Hemlock...

http://electronicexplorations.org/the-s ... mes-blake/

01 – James Blake – Limit To Your Love (Cover) [Unreleased]
02 – Pinch – Airlock [Tectonic]
03 – James Blake – Air and Lack Thereof [Forthcoming 'Hemlock Recordings']
04 – Mala – Hunter [DMZ]
05 – James Blake – Sparing the Horses [Forthcoming 'Hemlock Recordings']
06 – Untold – Bones (Hemlock Recordings)
07 – Mount Kimbie – The Mighty Gee [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
08 – Starkey – Time Traveler [Planet Mu]
09 – James Blake – I Never Learnt To Share [Unreleased]

I rest my case.

[JonKnox]

'[Blake] still made a palpable shift from the forbidding clicks of his early EPs to a kind of mournful, blue-eyed soul that echoes ‘Face Value’’s studied pathos. Even his radio breakthrough was a cover of Feist’s ‘Limit To Your Love’

I wondered how long it would be until people basically started saying stuff along the lines of, "James Blake has sold out, why doesn't he make strange uncommercial music anymore blah blah blah??"

To those people I direct them to the tracklist of Blake's mix for Electronic Explorations done in May 2009, before he had even released 'Air and Lack Thereof' on Hemlock...

http://electronicexplorations.org/the-s ... mes-blake/

01 – James Blake – Limit To Your Love (Cover) [Unreleased]
02 – Pinch – Airlock [Tectonic]
03 – James Blake – Air and Lack Thereof [Forthcoming 'Hemlock Recordings']
04 – Mala – Hunter [DMZ]
05 – James Blake – Sparing the Horses [Forthcoming 'Hemlock Recordings']
06 – Untold – Bones (Hemlock Recordings)
07 – Mount Kimbie – The Mighty Gee [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
08 – Starkey – Time Traveler [Planet Mu]
09 – James Blake – I Never Learnt To Share [Unreleased]

I rest my case.

I feel ya. I Never Learnt To Share had been floating around mixes for a while before the album was even announced. (One of my favorite tunes)

[artlab]

In the 1980s, when your parents were setting light to wodges of £50 notes, hoovering cocaine off ivory dashboards..

I stopped there, I'm not reading this bandwagon jumping bollocks.

[fractal]

'[Blake] still made a palpable shift from the forbidding clicks of his early EPs to a kind of mournful, blue-eyed soul that echoes ‘Face Value’’s studied pathos. Even his radio breakthrough was a cover of Feist’s ‘Limit To Your Love’

I wondered how long it would be until people basically started saying stuff along the lines of, "James Blake has sold out, why doesn't he make strange uncommercial music anymore blah blah blah??"

To those people I direct them to the tracklist of Blake's mix for Electronic Explorations done in May 2009, before he had even released 'Air and Lack Thereof' on Hemlock...

http://electronicexplorations.org/the-s ... mes-blake/

01 – James Blake – Limit To Your Love (Cover) [Unreleased]
02 – Pinch – Airlock [Tectonic]
03 – James Blake – Air and Lack Thereof [Forthcoming 'Hemlock Recordings']
04 – Mala – Hunter [DMZ]
05 – James Blake – Sparing the Horses [Forthcoming 'Hemlock Recordings']
06 – Untold – Bones (Hemlock Recordings)
07 – Mount Kimbie – The Mighty Gee [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
08 – Starkey – Time Traveler [Planet Mu]
09 – James Blake – I Never Learnt To Share [Unreleased]

I rest my case.

I feel ya. I Never Learnt To Share had been floating around mixes for a while before the album was even announced. (One of my favorite tunes)

Time traveler into I never learnt to share is such a great mix of tunes! One of those mixes that never leave the iPod.

Not going to read te article, NME is like the national enquirer of music

[xdeletiax]

yeah, theyr not really the type to let facts get in the way of a good headline.

[64hz]

fucking bait article.
how can a music mag seriously employ someone who doesnt have a clue what they are talking about.

[therapist]

'[Blake] still made a palpable shift from the forbidding clicks of his early EPs to a kind of mournful, blue-eyed soul that echoes ‘Face Value’’s studied pathos. Even his radio breakthrough was a cover of Feist’s ‘Limit To Your Love’

I wondered how long it would be until people basically started saying stuff along the lines of, "James Blake has sold out, why doesn't he make strange uncommercial music anymore blah blah blah??"

Is "a kind of mournful, blue-eyed soul" the new pop then? Because that doesn't read like accusing him of selling out.

[wfg1]

fucking bait article.
how can a music mag seriously employ someone who doesnt have a clue what they are talking about.

£££

[64hz]

I kniw, its just these circles of ignorance irritate me.

[slugabed]

what a load of ass

[glottis5]

how can a music mag seriously employ someone who doesnt have a clue what they are talking about.

It's NME, nobody there knows anything about anything

[weston]

The whole thing reads like a first time user, ranting in your ear at 6 in the morning about this "theory they got".

"Compelling evidence isn't it?"
I hope this is an attempt to be funny!

It's like the writer had a thought shit, and NME smeared it over there websight.

[pete_bubonic]

Lol, that was pointless. CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IS REFLECTIVE OF THE TIME WE LINE IN. No shit.

[Motorway to Roswell]

Article of the year.

[brokedjs]

Bare in mind, NME share an office with Nuts.

[Etches828]

lol nme