Moonlighting as a journalist and writer in Calgary, but mostly just listening to music, watching movies, reading books, and drinking espresso while tracking the various things I've done in an effort to get other things done.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
James Blake, The Wilhelm Scream
In their review of James Blake's self-titled debut, Pitchfork mentioned that Blake could be among a new crop of singer-songwriters to merge the bleeding edge of electronic music with traditional singer-songwriter tropes. It's a fair enough assessment, given that triphop is approaching twenty years of age as a genre (making it almost as old as James Blake) and there are those who trace dubstep, drum 'n' bass, and all forms of house music back even farther.
It will be interesting to hear what happens next.
Speaking of singer-songwriter electronic music collaborations, I wonder what Justin Vernon is up to these days?
