Massively anticipated soul futurism from James Blake! On his longest solo EP to date, Blake delivers the anthemic title track backed with three uncategorisable steppers functions. 'CYMK' is also the most upbeat cut we've heard from him, swinging around a 140bpm axis with pandrogynously pitched R'n'B vocals, skunk-hazed depth perceptions and a sense of barely tethered spatial chaos owing to his advanced programming skills. 'Footnotes' meanwhile can't decide whether it's electro-jazz fusion, cybertronik dubstep or slowfast bounce, 'I'll Stay' imagines Vladislav Delay and Farben dissecting The Dream in a digital echo chamber and 'Postpone' sculpts warm rushes of rhodes around slow and dusty digital bass while his own vocals are morphed into faux-gospel harmonics. Honestly! As far as we're concerned, this is as fresh as it gets for imaginative, innovative and head-inverting post-dubstep.
