7.6
Avg Score
8
Opinions
#6,524
All Time
9
Tracks
“fearless revelations and expansive sounds”
“**Favorite tracks:** FAMOUS LAST WORDS, LIFE IS NOT THE SAME, FUNERAL, FROZEN, SHOW ME, SAY WHAT YOU WILL, LOST ANGEL NIGHTS, FRIENDS THAT BREAK YOUR HEART, IF I'M INSECURE **Least favorite track:** I'M SO BLESSED YOU'RE MINE [Watch the review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_4jJvEh6Q0)”
“Assume Form, James Blake’s 2019 album, detailed his joy at being in love. Blake’s other half, the actor Jameela Jamil, politely requested he find a new subject next time. He has obliged with a record about the pain of sundered friendships. Last year’s lockdowns helped him sort the keepers from the energy vampires; a few of these songs were trialled during Blake’s Instagram Live gigs in 2020. We ”
“On Friends That Break Your Heart, James Blake remains a master of making heartbreak sound beautiful”
“A warm and even-keeled collection of ballads, this is James Blake’s most traditional album, but it offers little in the way of emotional insight.”
“James Blake has forgotten how to finish a song. Once a master of incisiveness, his fragmented melodrama that once so affectingly cross-stitched forward-thinking leftfield electronics with sobering balladry has lost all potency on his fifth studio album. Supposedly a concept record about a particular type of heartbreak, any glimmers of nuance peter out for want of universality, where songs gestate ”
