OvergrownJames Blake · 2013

pitchfork

““Time passes in a constant state,” James Blake sings, with ambiguity, on the title track of his new album. He then sets about interrogating the claim in ways that are highly characteristic of his work, with a 4/4 drum pattern corralling a wide, round bass and mirror shards of piano. The pace lingers, rushes, and wavers via accents and elisions, imploding majestically around a taut wire of tone in ”