Trying Times James Blake

• 1 Walk Out Music 03:20
• 2 Death of Love 03:26
• 3 I Had a Dream She Took My Hand 03:40
• 4 Trying Times 04:33
• 5 Make Something Up 04:06
• 6 Didn’t Come To Argue 04:42
• 7 Days Go By 04:02
• 8 Doesn't Just Happen 03:17
• 9 Obsession 01:40
• 10 Rest Of Your Life 04:42
• 11 Through The High Wire 03:42
• 12 Feel It Again 02:10
• 13 Just A Little Higher 04:19
• Total Runtime 47:39

Info for Trying Times

English producer, songwriter, and musician James Blake returns with ‘Trying Times’, his seventh studio album and first fully independent release. Written between London and Los Angeles, the album confronts the turbulence of the last several years - global unrest, fractured discourse, and personal reckonings while searching for empathy, connection, and love amid chaos.

The 12-track album features contributions from UK rapper Dave and Los Angeles-based vocalist Monica Martin. In a press statement, Blake says the album is a commentary on the relentlessness of modern life.

James Blake

James Blake
Influenced by the likes of D'Angelo and Stevie Wonder along with Burial and Mount Kimbie, London-based producer, singer, and songwriter James Blake first gave the world a taste of his quirky, R&B-sampling strain of dubstep in 2009 when his Air & Lack Thereof 12" appeared on the Hemlock label. Blake received quite the endorsement when the heralded Soul Jazz label picked the track up for their Steppas' Delight 2 compilation that same year. Blake raised his profile every few months during 2010 -- something of a breakout year for him -- with a succession of warmly received 12" releases: The Bells Sketch (Hessle Audio, March), CMYK (R&S, June), Klavierwerke (R&S, October), and the single-sided "Limit to Your Love" (Atlas, November). The last of the series -- a cover of a song by Feist, in which Blake's heartfelt vocal was placed front and center -- served as a precursor to his first full-length, issued the following February. Titled James Blake, it left a major impression, and was eventually nominated for a Mercury Prize but lost to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake. Blake returned to Hemlock for the Order 12", then reverted to Atlas for Enough Thunder, a six-track EP with a Bon Iver collaboration and a cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You." Yet another 12", Love Happened Here, was out by the end of 2011. Blake spent much of 2012 working on his second album, releasing new work under the name Harmonimix, and performing less often as the new songs percolated. In April 2013, second album Overgrown appeared, featuring collaborations with Brian Eno and RZA. It won that year's Mercury Prize, and Blake's songwriting was acknowledged when "Retrograde," one of the album's highlights, won an Ivor Novello Award in the category of Best Contemporary Song. Little, apart from an Airhead collaboration and an EP on his 1-800 Dinosaur label, was heard from Blake for three years. He resurfaced in April 2016 with contributions to Beyoncé's Lemonade. A couple weeks later, The Colour in Anything, his third album, arrived with only a few hours of advance notice. Recorded in England and at Rick Rubin's studio in Malibu, California, it included input from Bon Iver and Frank Ocean. (David Jeffries & Andy Kellman, AMG)

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