Originally written by Luke Slater · 20 December 2010
It surprised me - in some ways - to learn that James Blake came second in the Brit Critics Choice Award. Jessie 'Do It Like A Dude' J topped that poll, and put together these results are both devastating and encouraging. Still, Blake releases his much anticipated self-titled debut record on February 7 and, like the good advent calendars of yore, he's revealed a few more details about the album, namely the tracklisting and album art.
Tracklisting is as follows:
• Unluck
• Wilhelms Scream
• I Never Learnt To Share
• Lindisfarne I
• Lindisfarne II
• Limit To Your Love
• Give Me My Month
• To Care (Like You)
• Why Don’t You Call Me
• I Mind
• Measurements
...and the album art? Well, it's basically a variation of the swirly-blurry cover art to the Klavierwerke EP, so points for familiarity but not originality. Here it is: