Bruised JAMES BLAKE Is ‘THROWN AROUND’

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28 May 2024

World-famous electro-R&B-dubstep artist JAMES BLAKE looks like
he was in a thought fight and took some hard punches. No idea who
he was fighting with and who won.

Anyway, he was still able to record a new track, called THROWN AROUND.

Blake: “‘Thrown Around’ is a nod to some of the music I grew up listening to, growing up in England. It started as an ambient piece that I made with Dom Maker, that connected something very deep in me to the influence of British electronic bands. It’s a defiant song that’s wrestling with where our job takes us, what it does to our life. It deals with the draw backs of spending so much time dedicated to work. We don’t have any drives towards community – we are all driven towards success. Then we feel lonely and Thrown Around. This song brings people together – it is the connection through defiance.”

Wake-up people,
Blake will throw
you around.


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Blake: Instagram

JAMES BLAKE – Minimalistic Electronics For Maximum Joy With His New Piece ‘BIG HAMMER’

New striking strokes

Mega British electro-R&B-rap champ JAMES BLAKE shares his 7th LP, baptized
Playing Robots Into Heaven with the world on 8 September.

The first single BIG HAMMER is a weird piece. An instrumental trip, think Aphex Twin,
until midway when dancehall-rap vocal samples take over until the finish. Well, it’s weird on first hearing, but gets sort of funky after a couple of streams. Minimalistic electronics for maximum joy.

Listen/watch.

JAMES BLAKE: Instagram

The Sound Of Silence – JAMES BLAKE With Emotive Cover Of ‘THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOUR FACE’

Reveries for the laziest day of the week.

Famous London-based crooner JAMES BLAKE
brings us a cover EP on 11th December.

It will include his emotive interpretation of soulful
1957 ballad THE FIRST TIME I EVER SAW YOUR FACE
made famous by Roberta Flack in 1972.

Here’s Blake‘s take…

Original version by folk artists Penny Seeger and Ewan MacColl