The idiosyncratic electronic producer has become a masterful songwriter. As well as evolving as a producer, Blake has grown into a lyricist of stark beauty. There’s one key aspect though about The Colour In Anything that renders it heart stoppingly affecting in a way that his other releases haven’t quite managed.
Seventeen tracks running to well over an hour is a lot of music to take in, but there’s something deeply compelling about the way Blake holds the listener with clever, nuanced and detailed electronic beats and the very human warmth of piano aligned with his powerful and increasingly confident vocal placed front and centre that your attention rarely wavers. Perhaps the strongest indication that this album is Blake’s grandest, most meaningful statement is in its length. As such it’s the deepest and most evocative James Blake release yet. The album charts a journey in Blake’s life with a lover he’s either lost or with whom his relationship has changed irrevocably. The Colour In Anything, following hot on the heels of his appearance on Beyoncé‘s Lemonade, represents Blake’s desire to capture something, spiritual, emotional and heartfelt in his music, to find rapture in subtlety, splendour in detail. Something in the producer’s life was missing. Yet despite that album’s almost faultless success, Blake wasn’t happy. The duelling disparity of his sound got off to an intriguing yet slightly muddled start on his hype fuelled 2011 self titled debut before finding smoother, wonderfully lucid waters on the Mercury prize winning follow up, 2013’s Overgrown.
Equally adept at captivating an eager audience on the dance floor or providing a comforting, consoling, melancholy piano lament for the broken hearted, Blake is part electronic auteur and traditional balladeer. There are few other musicians in the world that can successfully straddle genres like Blake can. Radio Silence is Blake’s third album to be released, featuring stars like Bon Iver and Kanye West.Throughout James Blake’s career, a duality has been at play in his music and his public persona. He made it to second place ahead of more well know names like The Vaccines, Jamie Woon and Clare Maguire.Ħ. The potential of James Blake was obvious and this was reflected in the BBC’s Sound of 2011 where he was seen as a likely successful musicians. BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw choose it as his record of the week.ĥ. The third EP was CMYK, released through R&S Records in the year 2010. BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson was so impressed by Blake’s “Hemlock” release, he invited him to be on his international show.Ĥ. In 2009 he released “Air & Lack Thereof”, bear in mind that was recording songs in his bedroom.ģ. He has been well schooled in the art of music production from and early age. James Blake went on to further his education at Goldsmiths, University of London where he was rewarded with a degree in Popular Music.Ģ. He was also nominated for a Grammy award, the 56th Annual Grammy Awards for Best New Artist.ġ. The second album, Overgrown won the Mercury Prize in 2013.
His first album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2011. James Blake – This was self titled and release in England and in The USA. Girlfriend / Spouse Relation ship history
Singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. His school history includes Grange Park Primary School, Winchmore Hill and secondary education at The Latymer School, Edmonton.
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