BY KEVIN CORTEZ • JANUARY 17, 2019

Following a leaked tracklist at the top of the year, Electronic musician James Blake revealed his newest album, Assume Form, would arrive on January 18. Blake humbly embraced the leak hype by confirming Assume Form’s full tracklist on Instagram, and showed off which Hip-Hop heavyweights were on his collaboration list. Those featured artists included: Moses Sumney, Metro Boomin’, Travis Scott, and most notably, none other than the legendary ATLien himself, André 3000.

The two artists connect on the track “Where’s the Catch?,” with James Blake slowly setting the mood with a minimal piano loop and a sober vocal melody. “Alright, now this may be a little bit heady,” 3000 declares, just before unleashing a dizzying verse over Blake’s ever-building beat: “All my pessimistic keeps me in a cage / All my haters’ twistin’ keeps me spinnin’ ’round for days / Exorcism, pessimism has arisen / There’s no reason, really treason to myself, so silly / So perfect, so perfect, so why do I look for curtains? / I’m certain but certainly, false alarm’s alertin’ / A burden and beautiful times, a garden snake, Won’t bite me, but frightens me like I know I’m eight / I know I ain’t, I know it, ay.” The two square off with realistic, borderline pessimistic lyricism that calls back to another James Blake-produced track, Frank Ocean’s “Solo (Reprise).”

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