James Blake

Call it pure sonic exploration: young British singer/songwriter and composer JAMES BLAKE defies categorisation. Secret Sounds are thrilled to announce the very first tour by one of music’s most exciting new talents: JAMES BLAKE. Blake’s dreamy, spell-binding mix – sparse, hypnotic instrumentation, isolated, cut-up samples, powerful vocals – has seen his self-titled debut (released in February on Universal Music) heralded as one of the most exciting and groundbreaking albums of 2011. Pop your headphones on and it’s no surprise why – BLAKE’s poignant, slow burn record demands repeated listens. Scoring 9.0 from Pitchfork and described as a “dubstep Nebraska, or Sea Change” by US blog Frontier Psychiatrist, tracks like breakout single “The Wilhelm Scream” or his cover of Feist ballad “Limit to Your Love” envelop you in a sonic cocoon, a musical daydream where the silence is just as important as sound. A classically trained pianist who studied popular music at uni and found salvation in...