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CD: James Blake - James Blake
CD: James Blake - James Blake
Bright new talent displays huge aptitude but is sometimes curiously unengaging
James Blake's "Limit to Your Love" was a bolt out of the blue at the end of last year, perhaps even a quantum leap in soul'n'bass culture in the same way that Massive Attack or Roni Size once were. This fact was swiftly acknowledged in various New Face of 2011 polls which Blake started cropping up in.
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