James Blake Turns To Love Songs For Comfort at the End of the World On Album ‘Trying Times’
Love songs rarely arrive in periods of stability. They tend to appear when the world feels uncertain, and intimacy becomes the only solid ground left to stand on. The world as James Blake sees it is on a self-destructive tangent, a theme he has explored since parting ways with Republic Records and releasing the single Like the End’ , which reflects a growing sense of global disconnection. Hip-Hop’s critically acclaimed ‘favourite Brit’ has now returned to the music stage, leaning directly...