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Their follow-up album from 1996

Co-producer Cooper Crain

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JAMES BLAKE - Trying Times tbr2307 and a naivety that provedCD (Jewel Case) 'Trying Times' is James Blakes seventh studio album and features British rapper Dave, and singer songwriter Monica Martin. Written between Los Angeles and London, its a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. He explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious.