Merry Christmas! James Blake has just dropped a new EP, or a double-sided 7″ titled ‘200 Press’, available digitally at his own label 1-800 Dinosaur, but it’s also streaming via Spotify. We heard about two minutes of a few weeks back, but the whole thing is now available. Listen below!
It’s not what you may be expecting – and it may not be what you want, really, but I think it’s pretty great. It’s kind of a nod back to his much earlier work, with soulful crooning and beautiful pianos all but totally camouflaged among eerie beats, dark jazzy licks and general glitchy strangeness – particularly the final track, a one minute poem with weird, tampered vocals. It’s
The EP comes ahead of his third full album, hopefully being released next year. Kanye West and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon are among the confirmed collaborators in the follow-up to 2013’s brilliant album ‘Overgrown.’
He’s all over the place these days! Just a couple weeks ago he released this Gorillaz remix under his alter-ego Harmonimix
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