Overgrown

It almost seems unfair to continue to compare the James Blake of now to the James Blake of 2010. Were it to be detached from Blake's past and taken on its own as a work of crossover-ready electronic pop, one could accept his second album, Overgrown, as a mixed yet generally likable record—one which certainly isn't without its failings, but is intermittently impressive and on a rare handful of occasions utterly brilliant. Yet for any electronic-music fan that remembers Blake's im...

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