If you like ghostly, minimalistic, ambient Dubstep-esque music then you’ve come to the right place. The sound on the fourth EP from James Blake “Kalveirwerke is as if; Thom Yorke and super producer Burial had a love child who made music.
A haunting minimal sound is the main theme for this EP with the title track “Kalveirwerke” taking it’s time its own time to build up, and for the beat to come in, with a long, airy instrumental. The hauntingly, ghostly tune, made more so with eerie samples (to great effect), is kicked into a little more life when the beat snaps in. At the Dubstep standard of 140 beats per minute on every track it seems like the way forward for James Blake whose unique sound is reaching a lot of DJ’s in the UK at the moment. The Tentative piano playing on “don’t you think I do” sends a chill down your spine, and is a reoccurring theme on this EP with the feeling of hesitant softness in the tracks. This hesitance is often aided with the emptiness of the music; the minimalist sound which is driven by the simple drum beats and unsettling distorted samples. Not a lot can really compare to the amount of ambiance that these songs project; echoing here and there but still feeling full and edgy, the kind of music you would hear at midnight in a pitch black forest. Musically this is beautiful but somewhat monotonous piece at times as it does tend to drag here and there, with the length of tracks and the dark undertone becoming slightly overbearing. Overall I would say this is innovation at its highest and that you need to watch out for James Blake; he’s on to big things and this is only the beginning.
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