James Blake - James Blake - February 4, 2011

preTENtious: the best new music, ten years later

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Show Notes

On this day 10 years ago, James Blake rode a hype rocket to the moon with the release of his eponymous debut LP. What made his ascent so irresistable to tastemakers? Have we outgrown mumbly caucasian hipster soul music? And is "sad boy" a racial epithet? Dillon and Trevor set out to answer all these questions and more on the seventh episode of preTENtious.

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