What’d you do to your brother and sister?! On “I Never Learnt to Share,” you repeat the phrase “my brother and my sister don’t speak to me / but I don’t blame them” over and over.
I do think of the dance floor and what people can react to and how they will react. Very often, the things that I think are the strongest songs I make are when I have nothing else on my mind, but I suppose the strongest beats often come from wanting them to be played in clubs. The strongest moments are when I’m not really thinking of anybody else, really. For a lot of the album, I’m forgetting the audience. Some of the songs on the album sound like you’re speaking to yourself, like you’re purposefully trying to forget that people are listening. If there’s anything from the world of electronic music that Blake’s holding to, it’s the idea that a song can be a physical event - a sonic process, like watching a flower bloom or a volcano erupt - and not just a person performing.” Sounds pretty good, right?! Last week, while he was in the midst of an extensive transatlantic tour, Vulture gave Blake a call. Like: “This is a record with very few sounds per square inch, and most of what’s there is slow, lonesome, and rimed with digital rust. Then, in February, he released his official self-titled debut, and Vulture’s Nitsuh Abebe (along with a lot of other people) had some fun things to say about it. In the last few months of 2010, the 21-year-old British electronic musician James Blake enjoyed a meteoric blog-hype rise, going from anonymity to Pitchfork-induced Internet ubiquity.
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