Trying Times: Gatefold Black Vinyl 2LP Quavo while the hum of voices

while the hum of voices adds a contrast of angelic comfort

They worked on material she then brought into engineer Shawn Everett’s Los Angeles studio

Written after the birth of her daughter in 2023 (and recorded with her in the room beside Laura)

Released in October 1987

DOOM uses the Madlib-produced “One Beer” to fold layers of depth about escapism and ego

Trying Times: Gatefold Black Vinyl 2LP Quavo while the hum of voices'Trying Times' is a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. James Blake explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious. Themes of reflection, both literally and metaphorically, run through the records visual presentation, as Blake holds a mirror to the contradictions of modern