Why James Blake Is The New Phil Collins NME Article

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'[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.

You might be right, but I would suggest that by making the following comparison with Phil Collins it's definitely what the author is hinting at...

'Collins was famous enough with Genesis, sure, before releasing his solo debut ‘Face Value’ in 1981. But the album was such a departure that it was a fresh start and an obvious tilt at the mainstream.

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[prisoner]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZZAhI5Z ... re=related