Blake

A day where we rarely had a full complement of family in the house at any given time. Parties for one, the other not back from a sleepover, then a friend round, and someone went out, someone came in, etc, etc for the whole of the day.

And I made it out to see the new Sofia Coppola movie, Somewhere, at the Cameo early evening, a nice time to be out in those big comfy seats with hardly anyone else in the place. Pity the film was a little on the poor side, but sometimes you need that balance between the brilliant and the banal, it's all relative in judgement terms anyway. Obviously you hope to see more good films than bad over the course of a lifetime, but now and again the odd duffer is acceptable. And it did feature a fantastic Strokes song on the soundtrack which I'd never heard before even tho' it's been around for years apparently.

Which brings me to music. End of year type stuff and I was thining that the best 12" or EP I've heard this year was the recent Klavierwerke by James Blake, It got described as "chamber music for the post-dubstep crowd" by one of my favourite music retailers and I can see what they mean. He's a talented young English guy, about half my age and I just love what he does. I even christend another ridiculously-monkered genre after him. Smudged Dubstep, that'll be Smudgestep then. It'll catch on, oh never mind...

The four tracks can be listened to via the links below, pick of the bunch for me being the third one - just sublime.

Klavierwerke
Tell Her Safe
I Only Know (What I Know Now)
Don't You Think I Do

Blip today in homage to James.