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Playing Robots Into Heaven
Electronic · 2023 · 11 tracks · 42m

Playing Robots Into Heaven

James Blake

Modular synths and chopped dancehall vocals collide with a signature soulful falsetto. A return to club-rooted experimentation that feels both cold and deeply human.

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It's like his early dubstep days met his soul-singer era in a room full of glowing modular synths.

A restless, technological spiritualism that finds beauty in the hum of the machine.

Playing Robots Into Heaven · vs · James Blake
Modular Synth+4.0σ

The instrumentation foregrounds modular synth far more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks · 42m
01
Asking to Break
2:53
02
Loading
4:45
03
Tell Me
5:00
04
Fall Back
4:01
05
He’s Been Wonderful
3:21
06
Big Hammer
4:01
07
I Want You to Know
4:47
08
Night Sky
3:39
09
Fire the Editor
3:57
10
If You Can Hear Me
2:25
11
Playing Robots Into Heaven
3:55
Moments Worth Waiting For
The sudden, aggressive shift into the trap-inflected dancehall chaos of Big Hammer
The way the vocal loops on Loading build into a dizzying, kaleidoscopic swirl of self-doubt
The title track's closing moments where the synths dissolve into a literal heavenly hum
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