Thursday, 10 February 2011

Album 9 - James Blake - James Blake

A strange mix of traditional singer songwriter stuff, and very big hints of dubstep. The songs 'Limit To My Love' and 'Give Me My Mouth' are almost completely singer songwritery, but the rest of the album starts to feel like Frank Sinatra put through a blender.

Blake plays around with his voice so much, with reverb, delay, what seems like multi-tracking and various other kinds of distortion so most of the time the listener has no idea really what's going on. He even manages to throw in a bit of gospel sounding vocals on the last track.

There aren't that many true inventors of new genres around, and it seems Blake might be in that rare club, the inventor of dub-pop.

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