Inspired by James Blake

Inspired by James Blake

James Blake's soulful voice and distended, echoing production proved immediately influential on his peers. Banks followed suit through the use of crooning vocals and sine-wave synths on his spacious cut “Warm Water,” while Jessy Lanza's track “5785021” tackles a similar mix of fragility and propulsion. And on “Video Girl,” FKA twigs displays a Blake-like deftness at using the silence between beats as a weapon.

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