James Blake

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

James Blake speaks with Rick Rubin about his new Covers EP. Since his debut album in 2011, the British-born James Blake has gone on to win England's top musical honor, the Mercury Prize, and a Grammy. He’s also produced and collaborated with a ton of musicians including Jay-Z, Beyonce, Billie Eilish, and Travis Scott. A few years back in 2016 James flew from England to Malibu to work with Rick Rubin at Shangri-La. They worked together on his third album, The Colour In Anything. As you'll hear in this conversation with Rick today, James Blake had a life-changing experience while working and living at Shangri-La. In fact, has made LA his home base ever since. James also recalls an embarrassing teenage experience that left him making music in secret for years. And tells Rick that recording his new EP of covers solidified his love of perfect pop songs.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	James Blake has managed to distill his music down to pure emotion.
0:15.8	His voice is transcendent, defined genre and gender, and the best of the R&B tradition.
0:21.8	Contrasted with the unsettled off-kilter nature of his collage style production, his sound
0:26.7	is deeply stirring.
0:29.1	In a word, James Blake's music is sublime.
0:33.7	I've always loved you, how I do.
0:42.9	I like you of a proof for you.
0:48.2	It's a sweet word.
0:51.6	After releasing his self-titled debut album in 2011, the British-born James Blake went
0:57.0	onto when Grammys and England's top music honor, the Mercury Prize.
1:02.1	He's also produced and collaborated with a ton of musicians, including Jay-Z, Beyonce,
1:07.3	Billie Eilish, and Travis Scott.
1:10.7	James flew from England to work with Rick Rubin at Shangri-La in Malibu in 2016.
1:16.5	They worked together on his third album, The Color and Anything.
1:20.2	And as you'll hear in this conversation with Rick today, James Blake had a life-changing
1:24.4	experience while working and living at Shangri-La with Jameela Jamile.
1:28.8	What the time was his new girlfriend.
1:32.0	James also recalls an embarrassing experience that left him making music in secret for
1:36.5	years, and tells Rick that recording his new EP of covers solidified his love of perfect
1:43.0	pop songs.
1:47.9	This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age.
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