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Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:25 pm
by ddia
joeki wrote:
Anyway, the media and the indie kids are going to jump on this shit. You know they will.
I'm quite pleased NME gave the album 6/10 for the fact it might deter lazy indie/hipsters who won't even bother listening.

This is a quality album though, may not be defining for him (compared with air and lack thereof etc), but it's very promising. Unluck, I Never Learn't to Share and Wilhelm Scream are particularly infectious, it's complex and minimal, great listening.

Theres plenty of hype around him at the moment, i hope people will appreciate this complexity, he's definitely not done a Magnetic man!

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:55 pm
by b3antown_samurai

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:59 pm
by KRNLYA
i agree with the score but the text is awful.

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:22 pm
by fractal
:U:

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:01 pm
by Mortal
listened to the previews on itunes....only really half are doing it for me
i couldnt quite justify buying the whole album.
i'll give them all a listen on youtube, but if not i'll just be buying half of them as singles

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:31 pm
by kultron
I don't really get why everyone thinks this album is so great. I've listened to it about 20 times and I still don't think it's that very good save for 'i never learnt to share'. I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but I really wish he would learn to sing or shut up... His voice ruins every track, the beats are the only semi-interesting part.

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:19 pm
by KRNLYA

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:02 am
by robbiej
The album is decent, not a future classic like some of the 12"'s, but what really bugs me is my vinyl is one of the worst pressings ive ever had. garbage. im tempted to send it to the label.

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:31 am
by scspkr99
ddia wrote:
joeki wrote:
Anyway, the media and the indie kids are going to jump on this shit. You know they will.
I'm quite pleased NME gave the album 6/10 for the fact it might deter lazy indie/hipsters who won't even bother listening.

This is a quality album though, may not be defining for him (compared with air and lack thereof etc), but it's very promising. Unluck, I Never Learn't to Share and Wilhelm Scream are particularly infectious, it's complex and minimal, great listening.

Theres plenty of hype around him at the moment, i hope people will appreciate this complexity, he's definitely not done a Magnetic man!
Personally I'd rather he get paid for it to be honest and not really care who does / doesn't like it

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:25 am
by joeki
so I went out record shopping the other day (picked some HYP stuff up, priceless). They were pushing this thing really hard at Bilbo's (the local HMV I suppose). This thing is going to reach mainstream charts. In fact, The video clip already features on national TV here (as does Adele's rolling in the deep). It will all be about Limit To Your Love though, whereas I think that's probably the weakest thing along with Lindesfarne.

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:19 pm
by ddia
scspkr99 wrote:
ddia wrote:
joeki wrote:
Anyway, the media and the indie kids are going to jump on this shit. You know they will.
I'm quite pleased NME gave the album 6/10 for the fact it might deter lazy indie/hipsters who won't even bother listening.

This is a quality album though, may not be defining for him (compared with air and lack thereof etc), but it's very promising. Unluck, I Never Learn't to Share and Wilhelm Scream are particularly infectious, it's complex and minimal, great listening.

Theres plenty of hype around him at the moment, i hope people will appreciate this complexity, he's definitely not done a Magnetic man!
Personally I'd rather he get paid for it to be honest and not really care who does / doesn't like it
of course i want success for him and him to get paid, the man is a great talent, production and songwriting. All I'm saying is that theres some people out there that would jump on the hype wagon because a magazine says so, may not even purchase the music. Particularly some NME types (sorry if this seems like generalising, i read NME and love animal collective)

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:46 pm
by slanguage
so i got told yesterday that they're planning to repress of all his ep's...(i don't know what that means for the colour CMYK vinyls) but for me this is great cos the only ep of his missing in my collection is air and lack thereof

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:03 pm
by crytek
Late getting in on this, but I got the album. It's ok. Really dig I mind though. That, and maybe half the album if that.

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:04 pm
by Kensington
Did anyone here his cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You" on the Zane Lowe show? Mind blowing.

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:13 pm
by Walt Thizzney
I listen to this album to fall asleep

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:42 pm
by KRNLYA

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:09 pm
by -midnight
is this album going to come out digitally anywhere else but itunes?

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:55 am
by FackOff
-midnight wrote:is this album going to come out digitally anywhere else but itunes?
+1

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:13 am
by aliasa
if it's any help the vinyl comes with a free download for an mp3 copy of the album. 320kbps.

Re: James Blake - James Blake [Atlas and A&M]

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:39 am
by fractal
such a great album... just came across this beauty