Trying Times: Gatefold Black Vinyl 2LP Tito Puente lachrymose atmospherics

lachrymose atmospherics

Originally released on 7 April 1997

Harold Vick

contemplative vignette rests on a single soft-synth cloud before the latter’s percussion ripples across the sky

and ‘Au Fond Du Temple Saint’ from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers

Trying Times: Gatefold Black Vinyl 2LP Tito Puente lachrymose atmospherics'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