James Blake and Lil Yachty have teased a new collaborative album titled ‘Bad Cameo’. In a recent Instagram post, Lil Yachty revealed the album in a video clip, saying: “I think James has worked with a quite substantial amount of hip hop artists, but this project is so left for both of us.” Blake also played a track off the album at his recent show CYMK. There is no news about the release date of the album yet.
Lil Yachty has been teasing collaborations with Fred again.. and Overmono, along with his track with rockstar Yungblud called ‘When We Die (Can We Still Get High?)’ and a song with childhood friend Faye Webster called ‘Lego Ring’. He also presented his surprise pivot to psych-rock with last year’s ‘Let’s Start Here’.
James Blake, on the other hand, released his album ‘Playing Robots Into Heaven’ last September, which received four stars from NME. The album returns to the underground roots of Blake’s Hessle Audio, Hemlock, and R&S Records days. He nods to his earliest CMYK releases, and the production quality on the album is consistently inventive and hard-hitting – even in its quieter moments.
In other news, Brian Eno has ribbed Blake for his use of the ‘asshole chord’ in his breakout hit ‘Retrograde
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