James Blake, Khushi
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Tues March 26, 2019, 9 pm
Roseland Theater
Old Town-Chinatown (Portland)
$39.50 - $49.50
James Blake’s 2011 self-titled debut was a masterpiece of hermetic melancholy, a midnight whisper of a record surveying that stark domain where sadness echoes back to its bearer as terror. Blake’s work since then has mapped a slow climb into the light, his skeletal compositions collecting collaborators and textures along the way. On his fourth album, Assume Form, Blake throws himself a party in the name of romance and swoons through the strobing zone of desire. For the first time, he sounds flustered and even a little bit messy, like he’s struggling to wrap his mind around resplendence. He stumbles here and there, but it wouldn’t be love if he didn’t.
by Chris Stamm
by Chris Stamm