James Blake
“200 Press”
200 Press EP (out 12.08 on 1-800-Dinosaur)
Though he hasn’t released any official new music this year, the London boy genius has been hard at work, dropping a handful of exquisite one-off tracks on his can’t-miss BBC Radio 1 Residency. A radio rip of the Andre 300-flipping “200 Press” has been floating around for the last few months, but today we found out that it would be getting a proper release. Part of a three-song EP that may include 2014 bangers like “40455” and “Building It Still,” this cut gloriously harkens back to Blake’s early beat-driven days of CMYK and Klavierwerke, reminding us what a master he is at manipulating and placing vocal samples. As much as I love his two proper studio LPs, his production work was game-changing and responsible, in part, for the creation of an entire genre, and it’s brilliant to see him continue to grow as a producer as well as a singer-songwriter.
