James Blake   Playing Robots Into Heaven
3.5
great
Release Date: 2023
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4.5 superbTooManyFriends | September 9th 23

“groove-lacking” motherfucker did you LISTEN to Fall Back

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2.9 goodErwann S. STAFF | September 8th 23

Blake reminisces his early 2010s work on Playing Robots Into Heaven without fully nailing the "dub" aspect of dubstep, resulting in a groove-lacking release that *could* have been much cooler if Blake knew in which direction he wanted to go.

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2.5 averageajcollins15 | September 13th 23

A huge change for the long-standing post-dubstep artist. James Blake has been growing his emotional and potent style of post-dubstep and future garage music for some time now, however on his past few releases he has gone more commercial than in his early years. However, on a recent EP and in recent interviews he has talked about wanting to go back to his roots, and ?Playing Robots Into Heaven? is exactly that. A simple yet dark future garage record that feels as much like his debut album as it does his early DJ sets. However, I have never been a fan of James' early work in which the vocals always came off as bland or too simple. We see a lot of those issues on his new album. Most of this album is a very simple and bland taste of future garage, which has slowly become one of my favorite styles of garage music. There just doesn?t seem to be a lot of effort put into this record, whether that comes from awkward minimal techno ?Big Hammer? or the micro sound title track ending. There is just not a lot of interest here.

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4.0 excellentGrande challenges, with an almost Swiftian level of defiance and hostility. | September 11th 23

big hammer is straight up dogshit lmao but most everything else here is really really great. one of the biggest quality
disparities ive ever heard between a lead single and everything else on the record

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