I have a newfound appreciation for Big Hammer post-album release; s*** is hitting harder than when it released as a single
Back then I thought it was only a decent tune, but it didn’t go in interesting musical directions as much as I would’ve liked.
Now I’m hooked on it

Looking back on its release, the fact that James just came off of the big spotlight with Spider-Verse/Hummingbird and decided to drop this head-scratching track as the LEAD single of his new album makes me have such immense respect for him as an artist (as if I didn’t have enough already 😅).

Speaking of which, I enjoyed this reaction video:

IDC what anyone says; Big Hammer is a TOP 3 track on the album

Tell me that you love me over and over and over

Album’ steadily creeping into my top 10 of the year

Fall Back is on a loop in my head

Album on a late night drive is impeccable

Fall Back is insane

GOING TO THE SHOW TOMORROW. CANT WAIT

James Blake like ‘I’m the Burial now’

Happy birthday to the absolute goat

Celebrated with him his birthday at the show yesterday. My group got some flowers for him. It was an amazing show

no way my two goats have the same bday

sheeesh how was it bro!

im going to the one in NYC on November 6th

did the show start exactly at the start time? how long was it? what was the vibee

Amazing vibe. Like you could fall into it and get into a trance state. He started on time after his pre act and did more than 90 mins. It was intense with a lot of live remixes.

wherever i go
i'm only as good as my mind
which is only good if you're mine...

why haven't James and The Weeknd (or Abel now?) worked together? need that.

i'm not afraid
i've already failed so many times
you're the only one on my side, I'M COUNTING MYSELF...

wtf James. WTF

damn i'm reading the little blurbs on AM that break down the songs and If You Can Hear Me wasn't even necessarily written about his own situation. cool af to know

This is a letting go sort of song, too—a letting go of the constant pursuit of something, the pursuit of success or the pursuit of music, or the pursuit of whatever it is in your own life. It was actually written at the time of the movie Ad Astra, because I was writing something for it which ended up not being used. It was written to the scene where he finally communicates with his father who’s out in space and who might never come back. I think that in some way it’s a nice metaphor for how we go on our own path compared to our parents or maybe our father, in this case. We are trying to go as far as we can in a certain direction without getting lost and hopefully not repeating the same mistakes they did, but also learning from what they got right.

after at least bout 20 listens I’ll say this a 10/10 for me dawg, up there with self-titled

yea he don't miss

even though i prefer assume form and friends JB, this album is just amazing front to back and such a cool idea and title.

cannot wait for the show and all future projects by this man.

already one of my favorite artists ever

In 2013 or whatever hell yeah

In 2023 no thanks

Been listening to it a lot and its still getting better my favorite song keeps changing

I legit listen to at least once a day its nuts lol

Gonna burn it to a CD too

Lmaaaooo I really don't know why but I exactly thought about Ad Astra when I heard the song

James deconstructing BIG HAMMER:

BH has wholly poisoned my mind; said tune won’t get out of my head
IT’S SLAPPER OF THE YEAR
NO F***S GIVEN

Btw, the entire podcast/interview is available; he also goes in depth about Loading

My PRIH track ranking:

#11 Playing Robots Into Heaven
#10 Loading
#9 If You Can Hear Me
#8 Asking to Break
#7 Fire the Editor
#6 He’s Been Wonderful
#5 I Want You to Know
#4 Night Sky
#3 Big Hammer
#2 Tell Me
#1 Fall Back

James cooking up a potential classic with Monica Martin and Khushi
streamable.com/sp32sd
We really bout to get Monica’s debut album huh