JAMES BLAKE - Trying Times tbr2307 Dire Straits

Dire Straits

You’re never quite sure when

and a naivety that proved influential in the 2000s neo-folk boom (Devendra Banhart

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LABEL: Metal Blade Records

JAMES BLAKE - Trying Times tbr2307 Dire StraitsCD (Jewel Case) 'Trying Times' is James Blakes seventh studio album and features British rapper Dave, and singer songwriter Monica Martin. Written between Los Angeles and London, its a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. He explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious.