Album of the day (#1878): James Blake by James Blake

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  • Posted: 01/20/2016 21:00
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Today's album of the day

James Blake by James Blake (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2011.
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Overall rank: 827
Average rating: 72/100 (from 376 votes).



Tracks:
1. Unluck
2. The Wilhelm Scream
3. I Never Learnt to Share
4. Lindisfarne I
5. Lindisfarne II
6. Limit to Your Love
7. Give Me My Month
8. To Care (Like You)
9. Why Don't You Call Me
10. I Mind
11. Measurements

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Recently revisited this one and found I like it much more than I remember. I remember just as this album was coming out, Tiny Mix Tapes had hyped it up a bunch, and I checked out all of his preceding EPs. CMYK has stuck with me since consistently, and I still think it's my favorite from him and one of the minor essentials of the decade, but this one is very good, too.
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I firmly believe that this will be a huge classic in the next ten years or so. Still sounds great, and there's almost nothing like it.

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2. The Wilhelm Scream
5. Lindisfarne II
6. Limit to Your Love
11. Measurements
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Satie wrote:
Recently revisited this one and found I like it much more than I remember. I remember just as this album was coming out, Tiny Mix Tapes had hyped it up a bunch, and I checked out all of his preceding EPs. CMYK has stuck with me since consistently, and I still think it's my favorite from him and one of the minor essentials of the decade, but this one is very good, too.

i should revisit. i remember the hype and not buying it, but i feel the same as you about cmyk. the ep is gold.
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Overrated and irksome. To me he sounds pretentious and unoriginal. FWIW.

Or, if Adele was a hipster 20-something boy who dug on dubstep (the original UK version, not the American crap).
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imimesis wrote:
Overrated and irksome. To me he sounds pretentious and unoriginal. FWIW.

Or, if Adele was a hipster 20-something boy who dug on dubstep (the original UK version, not the American crap).


for the record, this was essentially my opinion until like a day or two ago when I relistened to this and became an insufferable rockist Razz
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The best thing he's done is still 'Air & Lack Thereof', but this is pretty dope.
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Yeah, the hype for this was a bit much. Definitely hurt my early experience with the record, but after giving it a fair listen I realized that this indeed lived up to the hype.
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I dunno. I tried listening to this again last night, and I believe it's worse than I remembered. The only moment on the album I enjoyed was the sub on Limit To Your Love.

the songwriting falls flat for me, and the production is really bland - not the juggernaut it's made out to be.
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This album is so bad ew Overgrown is light years ahead of this, Wilhelm Scream and Limit to Your Love are good but the rest is unlistenable
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