Sunday is a work day here too, so that means I will actually have to suffer through an awful day at work while counting milliseconds until I can finally weep myself to sleep with LP9.
We're gonna be alright!
Sweet first #1 to top this crazy week! This was all A LOT to take in, but I hope every week will be new Radiohead & James Blake week. LP9 comes out exactly one week before my birthday and it's already everything I ever wanted for a present!
Back in 2011 I convinced some friends to come see James Blake with me at this music festival we attended. Save for one friend who knew him beforehand, they all hated it. Then Overgrown came out two years later and at least half of them regretted not caring for the show back then
Overgrown was a big deal for me. It was my favorite record of 2013, and almost nothing that came out since has hit me quite the same way that Retrograde had. So this album is another big deal for me. It's a lot to take in at once, with that length and those many tracks. But I only listened through one and a half times and I already have trouble picking my favorite track out of like 6 options. This man is a master of synthesizing emotion and musicality in a way few others can, and I love every fucking second of it. I really look forward to spending time with this album a whole fucking lot, even with that other big album coming out on Sunday
I'm actually all in for Radiohead releasing a new video every couple of days for the next couple of weeks until the album drops. Will get my hype off the roof. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually OK with Radiohead not dropping the album this weekend, so they don't steal James Blake's thunder (and also so it drops right on my birthday)
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