“It was no coincidence that James Blake’s synth tempest “The Wilhelm Scream” preceded the Beats 1 rollout of Kacy Hill’s “Foreign Fields” last week. Blake built his career on minimalist digitized piano ballads and delicate, lost-in-the-woods vocals; it was spareness as aesthetic, a Kinfolk-ian complexity on musical scaffolding. So it makes sense that Kanye West, an artist who hits upon a sound he l”
