Blake, James: Trying Times (Vinyl 2xLP) Yasmin Williams the album is faithful to

the album is faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before

Your Love Is Killing Me

The album's ambient soundscapes have been described as a counterpoint to his intense Metal Machine Music album—but they are similar outliers in Reed's 40+ year exploration of drone music and feedback harmonics

There's always a bit of

The pile turned out to be a cornucopia of different sounds: radio jingles

Blake, James: Trying Times (Vinyl 2xLP) Yasmin Williams the album is faithful toTrying Times is a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. James Blake explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious. Themes of reflection, both literally and metaphorically, run through the records visual presentation, as Blake holds a mirror to the contradictions of modern