It’s Bill Withers, onstage in a stadium in Zaire in 1974. It’s one of my favorite songs next to “Waves Know Shores” and “Always,” filled with metaphors and lyrical smoke and mirrors.Įven thought “Put That Away And Talk To Me” and “I Hope My Life” are my least favorite songs on the album – I like the beats but not the auto-tune – Blake reveals that he was actually extremely high and smoked a lot of w**d because he found no inspiration whatsoever to complete the album and felt like he hit a wall during the process.Do something for me. It’s a simple song with beautiful but sad lyrics as he describes the shaky foundation of “forever” in relationships and love.
“f.o.r.e.v.e.r” is probably the softest track on the album. But I didn’t say I was working with Kanye just so people would get interested-I really wanted him to be on it. Eventually, the mood of the album changed, and in the end I don’t think it would have fit. I think a huge swath of things happened in his life, and I just stayed out of it. I wanted Kanye to be on the song ‘Timeless,’ but the verse didn’t materialize. I don’t really know how to describe how that didn’t work out. Kanye West was actually supposed to feature on this track as Blake tells Pitchfork. The album is full of beautiful lyrics and melodies, “Timeless” carrying a more dark sound and heavier bass. “ It’s sad that you’re no longer her…” being the key lyric to a song as he yearns for the old her because they’ve now drifted apart and while he’s become a better person, she’s become someone he no longer recognizes. It continues with “Points,” a song about how he loves a girl but can no longer connect with her because she’s not the same person he fell in love with. Harsh beats, low bass and his famous electronic tunes blend well with the piano keys seeping in the background as he softly sings about how “there’s a radio silence going on” in his heart. It instantly reminded me of “Retrograde” but still had it’s own unique sound. The album starts of with “Radio Silence,” the first song out of 17. Guess the thorns are on and the bloom I always fear Where the rose water passes and dry river flows Be ready to get deep in your feels and possibly ugly cry. Now, the UK singer has finally come back and teamed up with not only Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, but also Frank Ocean who is fake and disrespectful for helping write an album but won’t release his own to give us his anticipated new album, The Colour in Anything. Many know him as the guy who sings “Retrograde” or “Life Round Here” and recently as a contributor to Beyonce’s latest album Lemonade. It’s been three, painfully long years since we’ve heard James Blake’s angelic crooning in his last album Overgrown.
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