Brooklyn Vegan — The Portugal edition of Primavera sound will also include Erykah Badu, Stereolab, Interpol, Jarvis Cocker, James Blake, Modeselektor, Danny Brown, Mura Masa, Nina Kraviz, Guided by Voices and tons more.
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New York Times — The English musician’s style has seeped into pop’s commercial mainstream. On his fourth album, his greatest challenges are his own past and a new lyrical frontier: intimacy. more info
Stereogum — It's moving day at Valence Media, which means next week we'll be reviewing James Blake in Times Square, baby. Times Square is not the ideal place to commute to, sure, but neither is our current office in midtown. Still, we've been here for two years ... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — We're giving away tickets to a bunch of upcoming shows in NYC, including Metric, Peter Murphy's "40 Years of Bauhaus," Deerhunter, Beirut, Japanese Breakfast, John Maus, James Blake, and more.
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Chorus.fm — James Blake will release his new album, Assume Form, on January 18th. The track listing and album artwork can be seen below. Track Listing Assume From Mile High (feat. Travis Scott and Metro Boomin) Tell Them (feat. Moses Sumney and Metro Boomin) Int... more info
Stereogum — A week from Friday, we will have a new James Blake album in our lives. We learned of the existence of Assume Form, Blake's latest full-length, thanks to an accidental early Amazon listing and some eagle-eyed Reddit commenters, and Blake has been teas... more info
Gorilla vs. Bear — James Blake posted up a promising teaser of his collaboration with Rosalía today on his instagram story, presumably taken from his forthcoming LP Assume Form, due later this month. Shout out to whoever ripped these and posted them up on youtube; wat... more info