Limit to Your Love
A cover of Feist's song from The Reminder, built on voice, piano and a wobbling sub-bass.
James Blake, from James Blake (2010)
The original is by Leslie Feist and Chilly Gonzales (Jason Charles Beck) on Feist's The Reminder (2007). Blake recorded his version in 2010 and produced it, and R&S released it as a UK digital single; the date is disputed, with Wikipedia's song article giving November 25, the album article's lead November 28, and Stereogum in October 2010 planning November 8. The length is 4:37 on the song article and 4:36 on the album tracklist.
Magnet said Pitchfork named it Best New Track and described a subtle electronic wobble, deep bass and an infrequent beat; The A.V. Club said the rumble could have been pure novelty, but the track instead focuses on the vocals, the keys and the pregnant pauses. Martin de Thurah directed the video, published on October 12, 2010, with Blake's face in an apartment where apples float in space, tea bags rip and water glasses flutter. In the UK it debuted at 47 on December 12, 2010, peaked at 39, and re-entered at 39 in January 2011 after the Sound of 2011 result; it reached 7 in the Netherlands, 5 in Flanders and went Gold in Denmark, where it debuted at 3. Blake told Clash in January 2011 that playing it live was utterly unreal and slightly surreal, and glorious. Setlist.fm counts it as his most-played cover, at 360 performances, from a search summary; we could not retrieve first and last dates or sample information.
Sources
- Limit to Your Love, Wikipedia
- Take Cover: James Blake vs Feist, Magnet (2010-11-03)
- James Blake, The Limit to Your Love video, Stereogum (2010-10)
- Ones to Watch 2011: James Blake, Clash (2011-01)