James Blake - James Blake - February 4, 2011

Episode 2 February 11, 2021 01:24:06
James Blake - James Blake - February 4, 2011
preTENtious: the best new music, ten years later
James Blake - James Blake - February 4, 2011

Feb 11 2021 | 01:24:06

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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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