James Blake
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Biography
James Blake Litherland, better known by his stage name James Blake, was born in the London suburb of Entfield on September 26, 1988. In 2010, he surprised UK radio programmers and DJs with his tracks "CMYK" and "Limit to Your Love" (composed by Feist and Chilly Gonzales). Ranked as one of the BBC's hottest artists, he released a dubstep-influenced debut album at No. 9 in 2011. His musical style, at the crossroads of electronica, soul and folk, has led him to collaborate with artists as diverse as Bon Iver, Kanye West, Joni Mitchell and Björk. In 2013, his second album, Overgrown, ranked No. 8, featured a guest appearance by rapper RZA (Wu-Tang Clan) and earned the young artist the Mercury Prize that had eluded him the previous time around, while the track "Retrograde " took home an Ivor Novello Award. His warm or melancholy voice, combined with intimate sounds, aroused critical acclaim for his third album The Colour in Anything, released by surprise in May 2016, charted at No. 13 and featuring appearances by Frank Ocean and Bon Iver. Further associations follow, with Travis Scott, Vince Staples, Mount Kimbie, Kendrick Lamar and Oneohtrix Point Never, as well as a credit on the Black Panther movie soundtrack for "King's Dead" (featuring Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and Future) and "Bloody Waters". In 2019, the album Assume Form (No. 6) features Travis Scott and Metro Boomin, André 3000, Moses Sumney and RosalÃa, among others. Two EPs, including a covers EP, Covers (2020), precede her fifth album, Friends That Break Your Heart (2021), which debuted at No. 4. After the ambient Wind Down (2022), created with the help of an artificial intelligence application, James Blake adds new sounds to his futuristic successor Playing Robots Into Heaven (2023), featuring the singles "Big Hammer", "Loading" and "Tell Me".
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Retrograde
- Limit To Your Love
- King's Dead featuring Future
- I Need A Forest Fire
- The Wilhelm Scream
- If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead
- CMYK
- My Willing Heart
- A Case Of You
- Godspeed
- Do You Ever
- Tell Me
- Big Hammer
- You're Too Precious
- Before
- Life Is Not The Same
- feel away featuring Skepta
- Barefoot In The Park
- Digital Lion
- Can't Believe The Way We Flow
- Where's The Catch?
- Into The Red
- Take A Fall For Me
- Asking To Break
