Tag: James Blake
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Lewis – L’Amour
In a post I marked for later last month but only recently checked was this album by Lewis aka Randall Wulff. It’s amazing, and easily has become one of my favourite albums of recent times but it was recorded 31 years ago. It’s a strange story, of outsider music on a private press, a man…
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East India Youth
I went to the Wild Beasts Brixton gig a few days ago. It was strangely schizophrenic in feel, like the crowd and myself love the older songs, there’s obviously a shift in the audience, with Tom Fleming asking ‘who was here when we first played this song 10 years ago?’ to utter silence he responded…
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Albums that people forgot yet hung around on my iPod
Strange how end of year lists seem to forget albums that were earlier in the year, for later. It’s as if people forgot they existed…I didn’t, partly because I tend to check out new stuff in a lump that’s not necessarily chronological, and also if I like something it tends to stick around. So here…
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Sound of 1983 – A*M*E to the rescue
Another year, another BBC Sound of… list and another joyless trawl through people who not only sound-a-like, also didn’t pack some tunes. Savages? Interesting, cool early Siouxsie refs but can we have something more please like Oliver? King Krule aka Zoo Kid (the one who Tom Robinson I think keeps talking about along with Jake…
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RC 198: Hipnagogic 1 – Witch Space
Otherwise known as ђ†♀ğπ▲Ģ☻ğ↕⊆ ░ 1 ► Witch Space but I doubt WordPress could handle that in the headline! Chillwave, hypnagogic, hauntology, ghost drone, zombie rave, witch house, post-dubstep – all words for new genres in 2010, and some are the same…in fact I think it’s all one, maybe two genres and rather than an…
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James Blake and Sound of 2011 is post dubstep?
Not really heard much James Blake other than hearing the rather Coldplay-like ‘Limit to your love’ on 6Music, so when they just profiled him as he’s gotten to #2 in the Sound of 2011 I was surprised, more dubstep and Burial electronic territory than I was expecting – and love what he did to the…