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.
