Watch James Blake Cover Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed”

Watch James Blake Cover Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed”

Sunday night, May 14, James Blake performed at FORM Arcosanti in Arizona, where he delivered a stripped down, solo piano set. In addition to performances of old songs (like Overgrown’s “Retrograde” and The Colour in Anything’s title track), Blake covered “Godspeed” from Frank Ocean’s excellent Blonde. Blake is credited with production, arrangement, and keyboard contributions on the track. Watch his rendition below; scroll down for Frank’s original. “Godspeed,” which gives Elliott Smith a writing credit, has proved to be a fairly popular song to cover: Stormzy sang the track for BBC Radio 1, and dvsn also remixed the song.

Blake’s The Colour in Anything came out last year. Recently, he appeared on the Mount Kimbie track “We Go Home Together.” He also contributed to Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. song “ELEMENT.”

Revisit our feature interview “James Blake and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

.@jamesblake closed out the FORM Arcosanti Festival with his debut solo piano performance and sang “Godspeed.” pic.twitter.com/oPtNQP0wOu

— The FADER (@thefader) May 15, 2017

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