Album Review: James Blake, ‘Enough Thunder’
From Prefixmag:
On his latest, Enough Thunder, this happens… sometimes. The six-song EP has a short tracklist but at times feels like an eternity. Sounds are dragged on and on and we’re just not quite sure what Blake is trying to do. On “Fall Creek Boys Choir,” the single released a couple months back that features the vocals of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Blake creates a blissful, pulsing track full of Vernon’s dramatically haunting falsetto; yet after awhile, the song just levels out. We’re building towards something, and something, and something – but it’s never paid off. Rather than hold our attention, the repetition becomes boring. The same goes for the opening track, “Once We All Agree.” It’s only four and a half minutes long, but there doesn’t seem to be any reason why. And within that lies the biggest problem with the EP. The emptiness that felt so purposeful on his debut LP now feels elongated and forced.
