James Blake - Assume Form (January 18, 2019) Album • Page 7

this is v good. the way mile high starts is just pure bliss for me.

 

the back half of this is hitting 100% of the feels.

 

Yup, as expected, this is the perfect snowy day album.

 

If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead wouldn't really have fit on this.

 

Definitely not, but that song is soooo good.

 

It's included with his Don McLean cover on the Japanese edition as a bonus track by the way.

 

This is great, really loving it

 

Is Into The Red the greatest love song of all time? Aye. It is.

 

I keep trying to listen to other things and keep coming back to this.

I just start it over the second it ends.

 

tell them and barefoot in the park

 

barefoot in the park and can't believe the way we flow are my faves

 

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.

 

Also, layered vocals are my catnip and this album has me tweakin' hard.

 

Power On is fantastic

 

listening to mile high around midnight on a very dark road was perfect tbh

 

lmfao

James Blake: Assume Form Album Review | Pitchfork

 

really bad

 

this is an 8.5 at minimum vro

 

Another day, another worthless pitchfork review

 

"sUfFOcaTiNG SerIoUSnEsS"

 

"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?

 

I don't understand any of that, but Justin's hoooooooooooo is so perfectly placed in that song