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Bruno Mars announces Silk Sonic album releasing November 12th - HipHop

Bruno Mars announces Silk Sonic album releasing November 12th - HipHop

Bruno Mars announces Silk Sonic album releasing November 12th

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:06 PM PDT

[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] Don Toliver - Life Of a Don

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 08:49 PM PDT

Been about 24 hours since don dropped his sophomore album. Thoughts and favourite tracks?

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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 06:36 PM PDT

It's been about 24 hours since James Blake dropped his latest album. What are your thoughts? I think it's one of my favorite albums by him. It's consistent, pleasant to listen to, and has some really good features from JID, SZA, and SwaVay

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Lil Wayne Announces ‘Tha Carter Singles Collection,’ Drops New Song

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 10:50 AM PDT

[FRESH] Tech N9ne - Face Off (feat. Joey Cool, King Iso & Dwayne Johnson) | Official Music Video

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:07 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Nardo Wick - Who Want Smoke?? ft. Lil Durk, 21 Savage & G Herbo (Directed by Cole Bennett)

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:16 PM PDT

[FRESH] Cookin soul ft. Freddie Gibbs. - thug till it's over

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 01:26 PM PDT

[FRESH] James Blake - Frozen (ft. JID, SwaVay)

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 04:52 AM PDT

Daily Discussion Thread 10/08/2021

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:34 PM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

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10th:

  • Big Boi & Sleepy Brown - The Big Sleep Is Over [Southern Hip Hop, Chronically Pushed Back, Purple Ribbon / HITCO]
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[FRESH] Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY (EXTENDED VERSION)

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 09:54 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Mick Jenkins - Contacts

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 07:22 AM PDT

[FRESH] Casey Frey & Charlz Bucket - WANKA BOI

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:03 PM PDT

[FRESH] Tech N9ne ft. Lil Wayne - Too Good

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 07:42 PM PDT

"Teezo Touchdown Is the Insufferable Fashion Rapper of the Moment" (Alphonse Pierre's The Pitch)

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 07:20 AM PDT

Murs ft. John Cena - H-U-S-T-L-E (Produced by 9th Wonder)

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 10:51 PM PDT

Evolution Of DMX 1991-1997 (Full Underground Catalogue/Every Track & Rare Footage)

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 12:03 AM PDT

James Blake Makes Sucking The Joy Out Of Life Sound Beautiful On ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’ - Album Review

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 08:47 PM PDT

James Blake songs are sad. They've always carried an emotionally heavy burden and likely always will. It's the factor that's given the shapelessness of his now-renowned, robotic voice reason for being so celebrated. The elaborate distortion meant that real confrontation was often beneath him. Escapism of that kind isn't afforded to Blake on his fifth album, 'Friends That Break Your Heart', however. Shaped by a magnificent mundanity, Blake is too human, and his everyday dilemmas, more relatable than ever, carry a new acidity. The feelings of paranoia and isolation that outlined 2019's 'Assume Form' still linger here, but they take on a tangible form. Cladded with a linear format, betrayal becomes routine for Blake. Each knife plunged into his back wears the performer's elusive cloak down, edging nearer to the person beneath.

Blake has always written personally and with brutal honesty in his music, even if it hasn't always been direct. To match that blueprint, Blake spends much of the LP delaying the inevitable to soften the blow, his tactics only make the goodbyes more taxing, however. Like on 'Famous Last Words' where he refrains from moving past a lover he never should've encountered in fear of having the whole thing happen again. It's part of a revealing process of humanisation that gives the crooner's usual glum greyness a meatier, more relatable body. Part of that requires punishment, which Blake self-administrates adamantly, but he never wisens to the real threat - his tolerance. The melodramatic 'Life Is Not The Same' reflects on this, leaving Blake with nothing but the hole caused by unreciprocated loyalty and a bare, undulating synth line to fill it.

Accordingly, Blake assumes a new voice, or more accurately several, to cope with the pain. As a result, Blakes's fondness for unuttered melodies often prevails, a replacement for the words he can't bring himself to say. Of the lot, the most soul-stirring is reserved for the climax of 'Say What You Will' where Blake's bent coo teeters like a spinning top until he literally gives out. On the surface, it feels like a grand goodbye that'd segue to death, but he's really just admitting defeat, finally resorting to not caring. So long as he's wrapped in a blanket of his own reverb, no emotion is beyond Blake's scope. Appropriately, he sings with a decrepit demeanor on 'Funeral' as if the throbbing vibrations had seeped through a coffin. It's the result of years of honing his skill set and remains the only thing Blake is in complete control of here.

But that spontaneity leaves ample room for this album's trademark: balancing an unassuming openness with looming anxiety. This is most effective on 'Foot Forward', where cagey piano loops press rapidly up against Blake's fluttering coo like an escapee scaling down a prison wall. The rage boils beneath Blake's balmy assertion, he's already survived the worst of what the world will throw at him, but the threat of more is always just around the corner. To counter the lumbering confessions dotted throughout the LP, the production hopscotches to propel the atmosphere with ease. Even the melancholy of a bare acoustic strum on 'Friends That Break Your Heart' guides Blake from getting caught up in a venomous spat with friends turned enemies. His eager submission, although drawn-out, is epiphanic. In this case, death is the better option, sucking the joy out of life has never sounded so attractive.

There is a cost to all the gambling Blake partakes in on 'Friends That Break Your Heart', though. His ugly fate catches up to him just as his emotional deafness does. Without an obvious target, these songs are largely impersonal and, often, even less flattering. SZA and Blake remove all emotion when slinging tired, tepid compliments back and forth as if they were texting each other on 'Coming Back'. "Couldn't let you forget me", SZA sings with a squashed posture, there isn't a reason to remember her part. Add 'I'm So Blessed You're Mine' to the catalog of corporate-pleasing love songs too. "I'm so blessed you're mine", a chipmunked effect spouts repeatedly in case you didn't get the message the first fifty times. That's it. Blake's silence would've been better spent on the unnecessarily stretched closer 'If I'm Insecure' which retreads over the record's themes of doubt and commitment only to be salvaged by true love, again…

In true James Blake fashion, the straightforwardness feels alien. That's precisely why the album soars when it nestles into the realm of the bizarre beeps and boops, and sometimes seemingly random code of his early work. Even by Blakes' standards, 'Frozen' feels like the result of mixing strangely coloured potions together in a laboratory. The backdrop of plucky synths remains light to make your hairs stand on end but features JID and SwaVay take no such care when barreling through the cacophony of impromptu bangs, wallops, and ka-chows during their respective performances. The fantastical pocket of sci-fi-inspired experimentation expands on 'Lost Angel Nights' as Blake perches in croaky vocal registers peppered with all sorts of bluey, ghostly, and less-than-human qualities that'll keep listeners on the edge of their seats.

Though returning to the pixelated parts of Blake's repertoire gives 'Friends That Break Your Heart' its most thrilling assets, there's still something so captivating about hearing Blake strip back the layers to reveal something more human beneath. His many voices have a face, and it is both textured and worryingly plain at once. To that point, the accessibility of these songs isn't always a natural fit for Blake, whose talents can feel suppressed by the LP's rigid structure, especially when he is emotionally censored. But Blake is learning to heal, in more ways than one. He bounces back stronger by being ostensibly weaker. He is at ease when being torn apart. But more importantly, he continues to do what so few could even dare dream of, even when confined to his most mundane form.

Friends That Break Your Heart - James Blake - 8/10

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[FRESH ALBUM] Atmosphere - WORD?

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:58 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Don Toliver - Way Bigger [Official Music Video]

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 08:35 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] The Alchemist - Lossless (feat. MIKE)

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 09:01 AM PDT
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