JAMES BLAKE PREMIERES NEW SONG, “IF THE CAR BESIDE YOU MOVES AHEAD”
26 JANUARY 2018 (Toronto, ON) – James Blake has premiered a brand-new song, “If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead”, which is available now via Universal Music, the country’s leading music company. Listen to the new track here.
“If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead” was first aired last night during James BBC Radio 1 Residency, and is partnered today with an atmospheric video filmed around Los Angeles and directed by Alexander Brown. It’s another unexpected turn from Blake, who on Christmas Eve unveiled a surprise, beautifully stripped-back rework of Don Mclean’s “Vincent”, and is currently working on further new material.
ABOUT JAMES BLAKE:
London-based producer, singer, and songwriter James Blake first gave the world a taste of his quirky, R&B-sampling strain of dubstep in 2009 when his Air & Lack Thereof 12" appeared on the Hemlock label. Blake received quite the endorsement when the heralded Soul Jazz label picked the track up for their Steppas' Delight 2 compilation that same year. Blake raised his profile every few months during 2010 -- something of a breakout year for him -- with a succession of warmly received 12" releases: “The Bells Sketch”, “CMYK”, “Klavierwerke”, and the single-sided "Limit to Your Love". The last of the series -- a cover of a song by Feist, in which Blake's heartfelt vocal was placed front and center -- served as a precursor to his first full-length, issued the following February. Titled James Blake, it left a major impression, earning him a Mercury Prize nomination.
Blake returned to Hemlock for the Order 12", then reverted to Atlas for Enough Thunder, a six-track EP with a Bon Iver collaboration and a cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You." Yet another 12", Love What Happened Here, was out by the end of 2011. Blake spent much of 2012 working on his second album, releasing new work under the name Harmonimix, and performing less often as the new songs percolated. In April 2013, second album Overgrown appeared, featuring collaborations with Brian Eno and RZA. It won that year's Mercury Prize, and Blake's songwriting was acknowledged when "Retrograde", one of the album's highlights, won an Ivor Novello Award in the category of Best Contemporary Song. Little, apart from an Airhead collaboration and an EP on his 1-800 Dinosaur label, was heard from Blake for three years. He resurfaced in April 2016 with contributions to Beyoncé's Lemonade. A couple weeks later, The Colour in Anything, his third album, arrived with only a few hours of advance notice. Recorded in England and at Rick Rubin's studio in Malibu, California, it included input from Bon Iver and Frank Ocean. The album peaked within the Top 40 of the Billboard 200 and topped the U.S. Dance/Electronic chart. That year, Blake also contributed to Frank Ocean's “Endless”, Vince Staples' “Prima Donna”, and Travi$ Scott's “Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight”. He continued into 2017 with appearances on Jay-Z's 4:44 and Mount Kimbie's Love What Survives, while also producing "Element" for Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.
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