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Earlier this month, James Blake talked about the dire economics of the music industry and how streaming services don’t pay enough for artists to survive. Yesterday, Blake helped launch Vault, a direct-to-fan music platform where listeners can pay a fee to hear unreleased material from the artists that participate. Blake was approached by Vault after his social media posts about the industry went viral.
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In the last year there seemed to be a sort of rift between James Blake’s growing catalog. There was Blake, the singer-songwriter who created warped, knotty soul music on his self-titled debut, and then there was Blake, the post-dubstep producer whose early trio of EPs comprised some of most original electronic music of 2011. Of [...]
submitted by Nick Mar 7th 2013 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
British electronic pop time-bender James Blake is about a month away from releasing his new album Overgrown, and the first single “Retrograde” is enough to give me high hopes for it. And now he’s shared a version of “Voyeur,” one of the album’s other tracks. This is the “dub&a...
also confirmed for winner of NME's best small festival award
Check out the album artwork and tracklisting
submitted by Nick Feb 25th 2013 06:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Overgrown, James Blake’s second proper album, is set to arrive this spring, and the only thing we’ve heard from it is the luminous and mystery-drenched first single “Retrograde.” Judging by what we now know, though, things are about to get steadily more interesting. For instance: Brian Eno helped out on th...


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