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Unluck features a jarring disjointed beat, see-sawing chords that are gradually eaten away by distortion and largely drowned out by James Blake’s vocal, which for some reason seems to have been recorded at twice the volume of everything else.

On top of that, his singing is slathered in electronic effects that, rather than ironing out the imperfections, somehow point up the frailties, the moments where his voice croaks and cracks.

It is unsettling and strange. You hesitate to call it difficult for fear of encouraging the kind of character who dismisses anyone who listens to anything other than Merzbow and free jazz, but Unluck offers immediate proof that Blake is, by some considerable distance, the most experimental artist in recent memory to make the annual hotly tipped lists.

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June 16, 2011
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