Title: James Blake
Artiste: James Blake
Genre: Electronic
Track 1 (Hate) Is this meant to happen? It's like short samples over a piano and it's very annoying as it's like an old album being stuck or skipping over tracks. If this is intentional then it's not starting off on a good foot with me.
Track 2 (Hate) Ok, apparently that was an extra track added on the special CD, and the album proper begins on this one, but there's ****ing autotune which I absolutely abhor, and the percussion is putting me off. Not mad about his voice, and I don't like the disjointed nature of the music.
Track 3 (Love) Singing is a bit more settled here, nice slow organ and soft percussion. Much better. Yeah but now it's getting disjointed again. Still, it's better than the first two.
Track 4 (Love) The double vocal is great,
acapella then the organ coming in. Percussion (not phased or whatever it is he's doing on the other tracks) comes in, but the lyric is repetitive and boring and quite annoying.
Track 5 (Love) Kind of reminds me of Laurie Anderson with the vocoder work. Not mad about it but it's not too bad.
Track 6 (Love) Yeah, decent enough; quite minimalist
Track 7 (Love) First time I've heard him sing clearly; piano is nice
Track 8 (Love) A decent piano track
Track 9 (Hate) More poxy autotune and more sampling
Track 10 (Hate) And more of the same
Track 11 (Hate) And more
Track 12 (Love) Decent gospel style to this
End result: Far too annoying with all the blips and bleeps and samples coming and going, and autotune sets my teeth on edge whenever I hear it. Might seem odd that there are actually more Loves than Hates, and yet I Hate it, but the Loves aren't actually that I love these tracks, it's just that they don't annoy me enough to rate them as Hates. In truth, I like very little on this album and would not be predisposed towards listening to any more of Blake's material.
So, Love or Hate? This goes down as a
Hate
Chances of a full review: 0/10