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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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James Blake has a new EP called Enough Thunder coming soon, and we’ve already heard the new tracks “Not Long Now” and the Bon Iver collab “Fall Creek Choir Boys.” Onstage in Hollywood last night, Blake debuted another new one, the spare and mournful seven-minute track “Once We All Agree...
submitted by Nick Sep 14th 2011 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)
The first cut from James Blake’s upcoming Enough Thunder arrived today via a rip of BBC radio, and its a strange, somber track that glides on glitchy, twittering loops. It’s something of a cross between the more chopped up dub of Blake’s earliest stuff with the crystalline vocal work of his debut LP. Enough Thunder ...
New release will feature his collaboration with Bon Iver as well as new material
submitted by Nick Aug 31st 2011 07:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Before he dropped his self-titled debut album earlier this year, James Blake first came to the indie world’s attention because of a trio of 2010 post-dubstep EPs, which covered a whole lot of aesthetic ground between them. (I have at least one friend who considers the three EPs to be, cumulatively, 2010′s best album.) Blake [...
Hear the pair's new track on NME.COM now


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