Limit To Your Love

Album: James Blake (2010)
Charted: 39
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • James Blake is a British electronic composer who was raised in an "arty" family in Enfield, North London. He creates imaginative electronic urban music by spicing R&B Hip-Hop samples with his keyboard playing. This song, the first single from his debut self-titled album, was recorded and produced from the bedroom of his London flat.
  • The song is a soulful cover of Feist and Chilly Gonzales's ballad of the same title, which was originally released on Feist's 2007 album The Reminder.
  • Blake told The Daily Telegraph: "It's a physical track, with the sub at a frequency that rattles you. I made it to be devastating in a club, on a huge sound system. You get a completely different experience if you listen to it on any other medium. But that's great. If all the elements are in place, you should get 80% of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio."
  • Q magazine asked Feist if she'd spoken to James Blake about his cover. She replied: "I tried to send a message giving him maximum respect for how he reinvented it to make it his own. I haven't heard back yet but I don't take it personally because I'm sure there's like 50 middle men between he and I."

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Paul Williams

Paul WilliamsSongwriter Interviews

He's a singer and an actor, but as a songwriter Paul helped make Kermit a cultured frog, turned a bank commercial into a huge hit and made love both "exciting and new" and "soft as an easy chair."

Five Rockers Who Rolled With The Devil

Five Rockers Who Rolled With The DevilSong Writing

Just how much did these monsters of rock dabble in the occult?

Dwight Twilley

Dwight TwilleySongwriter Interviews

Since his debut single "I'm On Fire" in 1975, Dwight has been providing Spinal-Tap moments and misadventure.

Ramones

RamonesFact or Fiction

A band so baffling, even their names were contrived. Check your score in the Ramones version of Fact or Fiction.

Chris Frantz of Talking Heads

Chris Frantz of Talking HeadsSongwriter Interviews

Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz on where the term "new wave" originated, the story of "Naive Melody," and why they never recorded another cover song after "Take Me To The River."

Booker T. Jones

Booker T. JonesSongwriter Interviews

The Stax legend on how he cooked up "Green Onions," the first time he and Otis Redding saw hippies, and if he'll ever play a digital organ.