I keep trying to listen to other things and keep coming back to this. I just start it over the second it ends.
Barefoot in the Park and Power On are my current favorites, but there's not a bad song on here. But I really love Barefoot in the Park, it's quickly making its way up the list of my all time favorite James Blake songs.
I need to know who is opening the North American tour dates because I had this insane idea that it might be Rosalia this morning.
It was the perfect use of Travis Scott's removed chilliness (I'm saying this as someone who likes some of his work but is not really a 'fan' per se. The way him and James interplay is amazing songwriting. It feels like a mutual joining of worlds, not like James Blake doing Travis/Metro or vice versa. My first listen of the album was a little bit muted just because I wasn't sure how to feel about just how immediate it all is (huge S/T fan of course), but it's easily his finest work as a songwriter. There are weaker songs of course, but every song feels unique and memorable. "Can't Believe The Way We Flow" and "Power On" are early favourites.
"but I can’t help but find something off-puttingly performative and voyeuristic in its romantic rapture; it feels like watching a couple slow-dance in a mirror" The fuck is that supposed to mean? It's a love song. About being in love. Love. Song.
this review is garbage but god forbid I click back to the TCIA one and it's even worse "Guest Bon Iver's “hooooo” at the start of “I Need a Forest Fire” is laughable in its wimpy approximation of bravado." what the fuck is this? who writes like this?