Retrograde

I don’t know anyone who listens to James Blake during the day. It’s always late, alone, the kind of listening where you’re not really listening—just letting it happen in the room. Retrograde fits that perfectly. It’s about being stuck, about time going backward, about the person you keep becoming. I put it on once at 3am after too much wine and too much thinking, and it did what Blake does best—made the room feel emptier and fuller at the same time.