Albums of the Decade - 33. James Blake - Overgrown (2013)

 33. JAMES BLAKE - OVERGROWN (2013) 

This was a coming-of-age album for the artist, who collaborated with RZA of Wu Tang, on one of the tracks of the decade -  "Take A Fall For Me" - about unrequited love, that packs the biggest punch, as does "Digital Lion" - another laser shredding track that is out of this macrocosm, an outlier of suspense.

This sophomore album from James Blake - I saw it on tour when he came to Taipei - was a mix of angular trajectories, piercing shreds and harsh realities. To absorb it up at Legacy in Huashan Arts Park feels like a yesterday ago and now I got the new me.

Still, though I got the new me, the old me was still grooving and getting pumped full of electrolytes when I saw this live. Holy ghost. Fucking pup.

Records of 2010 - 35. The Russian Futurists - The Weight's on the Wheels

Records of 2010 - 35. The Russian Futurists - The Weight's on the Wheels

I love this band, they're really nice. I love the way that Matthew Adam Hart started out as a bedroom recording artist and now they've expanded to be a decent band in their own right. It's a sign of progress. Even better is the fact that this friendly, underground indie-pop band had 2 songs featured on NBA2K11, a basketball game that's huge on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, not that I play those things; I just reseached it from clickety-click-click on wikipedia. Anyway, "The Weight's on the Wheels" recollects early Of Montreal and the directness of the poppy melodies combined with the cryptic lyrics means they're pulling rabbits out of hats on every song here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQeIOe0PWGg