Album Rating: 4.0

whats with that chip on ur shoulder these days bloc

Album Rating: 4.0

lemme just brush that off for ya

I dunno, I feel like a troll these days. When you first come on the site you wanna troll and start shit for no reason, and then settle down and become civilized. But for me, I feel like the opposite is happening. Midlife Sputnik crisis perhaps?

Album Rating: 4.0

LMAO

Album Rating: 4.0

Meh i cant help but still love ya

The feeling is mutual, bud

Album Rating: 4.0

more relevantly im thinking of slapping a cool 5 on this like the true sputnik contrarian edge lord i am

Album Rating: 4.0

ppl talking about the lyrics being bad on here like they missed the part where he says



"lets go home and talk shit about everyone"



sputnik mantra right there

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh damn this is sounding really good so far



Was not expecting that

Album Rating: 4.0

My issue with Blake LPs has always been that his obligatory piano ballads lull the flow to a dead stop but that they were almost necessary to give you a moment to discern between tracks anyways. This is most obvious with his last two where Overgrown was too homogenous and wasn't broken up enough and then Colour In Anything was broken up too much with that type of filler and it made the end result excruciatingly over-long.



This doesn't suffer from either of those faults, in fact its the first James Blake LP to sound quintessentially James Blake without sounding too much like James Blake. Its kind of what everyone who has been unsatisfied with Blake has been asking for, but as we all know audiences only demand a new approach until they actually get it, at which point the tune of their perpetual butt-hurt takes a furious pendulum swing.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I think I just enjoy ballad-y Blake more than experimental Blake.

Album Rating: 2.0

I was excited for this album tbf, which might be why I was so disappointed by it and rated it so low. I still think it's his weakest release by quite a fair margin though.

Album Rating: 4.0

holy hell this is gorgeous guys

wtf

Album Rating: 4.0

Im gonna have to listen a bunch more before I say anything more but I at least already think it has more charisma than Overgrown. That album still all sounds like one song to me.

Album Rating: 4.0

And its more palatable than Colour In Anything which I find impossible to get through in one sitting.

Album Rating: 4.0

s/t is best still over-all but this one certainly has an edge on certain aforementioned flaws of his last two

Album Rating: 4.0

I already like this better than the other two albums I've heard by him - Colour and his debut. Man, the t/t here is stunning.



Probably a 4+ for me if I had to guess.

T/T is pretty good yeah

Album Rating: 4.0

I consistently enjoyed everything here but there wasn't a standout. Not a bad or a good thing cuz color had standouts and...

Album Rating: 2.0

i really like overgrown oop