Every year there seems to be the dark horse that sneaks onto every music publications end of the year list. James Blake was that dude for 2010 and he totally deserves it. Their is a sense of entrapment to his music, but it is never overly encompassing. It's the entrapment of a warm bed on a cold winter's day and not the entrapment of a cage. I often get annoyed with overly compressed music like this, but this record in particular has such great space to it as well. "The Wilhelm Scream" will be appearing on his forthcoming album, James Blake, which will be released on February 7th. Based on how people reacted to his first couple EPs, this is my early pick for being on everybody's end of the year list. You can hear the actual album version on NPR's most recent All Songs Considered podcast, but for now this live version for BBC will suffice.
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