Music
James Blake Grows Up
Assume Form is Blake’s first album to acknowledge his status as a pop presence, but it also feels like an attempt to broaden his range, to correct the way he became associated with generic melancholy.
James Blake
Music
Even in Love, James Blake Hovers Somewhere Just Out of Reach
I keep listening because I want to grasp it, and so the music generates the very frustrated desire it addresses.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (October 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of AlunaGeorge, A$AP Ferg, Kurt Vile, and James Blake.
Art
Digital Nostalgia
Sometime around February 14, an internet phenomenon erupted as Charles Hoey and Pete Smith announced they had found a lost game cartridge for the original Nintendo video game system (NES). This cartridge was an unlabeled video game version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed novel The Great Gatsby. Depic