he used to be
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Album Rating: 3.5
not sure how someone would think retrograde isn't a standout
but i guess if hot take is a personality trait
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Album Rating: 2.5
this is the only album of his I didn't love
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it's a standout for the album i guess but not within his discog for me
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah he’s definitely a playlist shuffle artist rather than having go to classic albums like some artists. Saying that, Overgrown, Retrograde, To The Last and Take A Fall For Me make it onto a lot of playlists I chuck together as nice fillers between the best tracks like Forest Fire, Choose Me, Noise Above Our Heads etc.
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Only heard the debut, it's decent but the "the vocals and beat don't line up" thing got old pretty fast
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Album Rating: 2.5
debut is his best and one of my favs in the genreh
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"but the "the vocals and beat don't line up" thing got old pretty fast"
thats how i feel about post-vespertine bork
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Album Rating: 2.5
I didn't know she even made music in the 21st century
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Album Rating: 3.7
"unluck" is the s/t opener, right? that hits the crazy mismatch vibe pretty hard but it's really cool. feel like the rest isn't as explicit about that tho, but it is a weird album for sure. really influential to me when I was 15
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Album Rating: 2.5
im surprised I was listening to James Blake at 16
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Album Rating: 3.7
I sang some piano songs with a fake british accent and would warp the piano so that it sounded weird and loopy in the manner of the second half of that album. funny stuff
now I'm sort of sick of him though lol, and especially that damn piano. enough thunder and order/pan a year later sort of put me off, and then this put me back in my happy space in a minor way (it's a good album though), and then I sort of stopped keeping up with him. those initial EPs are amazing too though, what a talent
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skimming this to refresh my memory my standouts from this would be Life Round Here, Take A Fall For Me, Retrogade, and Voyeur. But they don't stand out from the rest of the release the same way tracks like Mile High, I Need A Forest Fire, I Mind, Love What Happened Here, We Might Feel Unsound, Klavierwerke, and CMYK do, where they just blow most of the rest of the album out of the water entirely to me. I don't think that means they are less powerful so much as it means the album just doesn't have as big of a quality gap between its best and worst songs.
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Album Rating: 2.5
you had no business writing reviews with that much prowess at 15 bro
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Album Rating: 2.5
take a fall for me and retrograde are unbelievably good, but those are all I give a shit about
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Album Rating: 3.7
@pots agreed on all fronts. "mile high" is all I need from assume form tbh even though there are good elements in almost every song
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Album Rating: 3.7
gotta respect the fact that he's 6'4" though. nothign can change that
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Assume Form is weird because i kind of respect it more than i actually enjoy it just because i feel like its the first time James Blake has taken a risk since he started making alt r&b
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Album Rating: 3.7
I'd say basically the same thing: I respect it insofar as I'm like, "well this element is good, this one is thought out, this is nice" in every song but it rarely comes together for me. was just talking about the issue of our on-paper Evaluation of a piece of art and the ineffable gap between that kind of thing and how we "actually" holistically feel about it. the convo was about negatively evaluating elements of something but ultimately liking it so I guess this is an inverse case
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Album Rating: 3.7
the guy's definitely a capital-A artist [silly thing to say but I'm probably using it as a proxy for a more precise way to say it that i'll think of later] with a worked-through sense of when to give and withhold pleasure and a spectacular grounding in songwriting but the hit rate is too low for me post-s/t or perhaps post-this
Order/Pan was sort of hilarious in retrospect though I'll give him that too
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