Video: James Blake, “The Wilhelm Scream”

We compared James Blake to D’Angelo when he appeared in a white house-shirt in the video for “Limit To Your Love.” The resemblance is even weirder in “The Wilhelm Scream”— Blake stands face-front to the camera like D in “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” (SIGH), except he’s not popping out from a staunch black ground or being teased by a hungry camera. Rather, his hair has grown and it’s kind of tatty. It looks as if he’s worn his duffel coat inside of a steam room. A wash of blue/green/red bleeds and obscures him from the shoulders up and we wait for a moment of focus to see if he is smirking at all like he was when karaoke-ing Feist, or just miserable being made to stand there. For a moment there’s someone else, a long-hair, we’re going to presume it’s a woman who’s beloved. Voodoo is still for sale! James Blake’s album is legitimate next week.

POSTED February 1, 2011 9:16AM IN MP3 / STREAMS Comments (5) TAGS: , , , ,

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  3. ROBERT says:

    I normally just by pass the articles and videos on the site to get right down to the freeload part of the post but after seeing this same video mentioned on another site I had to watch. This man has got his Valentines day swag up a little early. Track is so smooth

  4. john says:

    please don’t bring d’angelo into this, this is not on that level. Its pretty good for now days but lets get real…

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