Look I Found Her

James Blake “CMYK”

“CMYK” is haunted by R&B ghosts. Vocal samples drift through the track, distorted and abstracted, but left just familiar enough that we can catch some of the words and identify the source material. You could rely on cultural memory to fill in the gaps — Blake is sampling Kelis and Aaliyah — but it’s not necessary, you can pick up on the tension just by listening. He’s contrasting perspectives, giving us the voice of the angry woman who has been cheated on and the voice of the Other Woman, not in conversation or conflict, but just floating along in the same continuum, as if to put us in the place of the man who is playing them both. It’s all just faint echoes of some emotional mess.

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