- Record Label: Quality Control / Motown
- Release Date: Jun 28, 2024
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Jul 19, 2024Whether this will be an ongoing partnership or ships passing in the night remains to be seen, but despite its expectation-lowering title, “Bad Cameo” is a strong addition to both artists’ discographies.
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Jul 9, 2024Bad Cameo is a compelling picture of two collaborators inspiring each other to try things they might not have on their own.
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Jun 28, 2024‘Bad Cameo’ rightly shines light on the craft, a soothing, extremely subtle song cycle that needs time for its labyrinth to be solved.
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Jun 28, 2024Even for those of us who’d never before considered the possibility of a James Blake and Lil Yachty collab, Bad Cameo somehow provides exactly what you’d expect. Ideas in abundance, terrific variety, a little indulgence, and an end product that actually makes perfect sense.
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Jul 1, 2024The bulk of Bad Cameo’s novelty arrives, instead, in songcraft. To Blake’s credit, he’s a master of seeing tracks as living things, subject to as much growth and meandering as the masterminds who make them. Familiar as they may feel, the most striking songs on this project keep some powder dry, sprawling into realms far beyond their starting places.
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Jun 28, 2024There are moments of genuine spine-tingle – like hearing Yachty’s elastic voice funnelled through Blake’s black box of tricks on Missing Man and Transport Me, and the almost-gospel Red Carpet, an a cappella threaded with Hammond organ and analogue hiss. But sometimes the fragile melancholy turns to mud.