James Blake - If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2018
- James Blake - If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead (Official Video)
Listen here: jamesblake.lnk.to/carbesideYT
If the car beside you moves ahead
As much as it feels as though you’re dead
You’re not going backwards.
Video directed by Alexander Brown.
Song written and produced by James Blake, co produced by Dominic Maker
Audio mixed by Nathan Boddy & James Blake, and mastered by Matt Colton.
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This is a bit personal but it really makes me appreciate the song. I suffer from panic attacks when I'm stressed out, which are often paired with Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a type of seizure that messes with how your brain processes information. For me, it makes noises sound incredibly loud and like they're going too fast - I've never really had a tangible way to describe it, and it used to freak the hell out of me. It's at its worst if I smoke while stressed out and then it sounds like voices are stuttering.
This track completely emulates how I feel when I'm in that state. It's hit me like a brick when I first heard it for that reason. I don't know if it was James's goal to evoke a panic attack or anything like that, but for me, this is a gorgeous artistic representation of anxiety and how it can make you feel like everything is distant but also way too much to handle. I can totally see why people wouldn't like this kind of thing, but it's exactly why we need abstract art - to explain abstract thoughts.
Also, the production is fantastic, and the more I listen the more intricate the vocal chopping feels. Sorry for getting way too deep there! I just have a lot of feelings on this haha
Totally with you on that Stephen - I had the same experience. What a genius this man is.
Thanks for sharing and I wish you the best 👍..also what the fuck is alice in Wonderland syndrome because that sounds absolutely terrifying
wow, thank you for sharing. i've learned something new today about panic attacks, becouse of your comment. it makes me to look at this piece of art from another, completely new angle
interesting... I get the syndrome when I suffer from massive migraine. mmmhmmm...
Orale carnal que loco!
I just realized something. I listened to this song a while ago, and just kind of brushed it off. I didn't really understand it. And lately I've been dealing with many negative thoughts about my future, and all the things that could happen. It's gotten to the point that I wondered if my mind would ever become a happy place again. While I was listening to Spotify, this song came on after my playlist ended. I absolutely loved it. It made me feel understood, after such a long time being alone in my thoughts. For the first time, in a long time, I feel at peace, in my head. The only way I can try to explain is that it gave me the feeling I could pace myself in life, and that theres always that second chance, where first I thought there was none. James is a brilliant artist. For me the car beside me that moves ahead, are opportunities, or people, who already have their lives set up, and layed out in front of them. But we are all heading in the same direction, and some just go faster. This song makes me feel its okay to take my time. Thank you James.
🧡💜❤
The way the vocal is like, he's stuttering, as if struggling, to get to the point... very thematic w the lyrics... genius
he always satisfies that ignored feeling inside you.
Ahmad Khan you don’t have yell bruh
u nailed that
love songs for the mildly depressed...
I SWEAAAR
this
I see a lot of appreciation for James. I think that the director of this video should also be congratulated. I for one have never seen such a beautiful video to go with a song like this. The visuals are absolutely stunning.
yeah i agree.. it's amazing how the video fits the song, they did a brilliant job for sure.
Definitely...
Beautiful
100 agree. Track and video are genuine creativity at it's finest.
Strangely relaxing and anxiety-inducing at the same time.
YASSOU Yes! Definitely
I often say he writes “nightmare music”, and he’s amazing at it.
The perfect balance
I dont know if im coming down off of something or it's just begun. This song has powers.
So true
james blake is just on some next level shit and people aren't ready for it yet
Exactly!
Right on
You're right, it's an entirely new level of shit.
Camino 84 Ditto
💯
I keep coming back to this song because It keeps replaying in my mind
MacDoesIt same
Me pasó lo mismo. jajaja!
DAMN YA BOY SHOWED UP
Okay so I kinda could see garret watts being here bc he's weird but YOU? No. Nope. No No No we are done. Yes we areeeeeee.
How do you remember it
Trying to sing along to this song is a very strange process but I love the challenge and I attempt it way too often.
Also, I have listened to this song almost exclusively since it’s release.
I was waiting for you to comment on here :) Also I relate to everything you said haha
ITS FUCKING GARRETT WATTS
Saw tick against name and gawping mouth open gaze (so must be famous and not trying to be offensive, just a classic look as it shows 'I am affably amicable'. A million subscribers and I have never heard of you, I spend way too long on youtube and not once came across your video's, odd! Why you would want to build a crisp wall is unknown to be but no skin off my back, carry on for that pay out.
MinimalGlitch You never closed your parentheses
Sorry was fully distracted by the cookbook I have just purchased and trying to do too many things at once, finding a house, deciding whether I could watch any more of that chaps videos, (couldn't as it so happens. Anyway as an English teacher I am distraught with the mistake I have made and will commit a less violent form of Seppuku (more commonly known as harakiri, for example learn my own languages grammar which was not taught at school or maybe even make myself purchase the 0 buttn on my keyboard again (not the one on my numberpad part, the one about the qwerty that broke some years ago on this laptop!
Thought the vocals were a mess initially, but the more you listen to it, the more your brain predicts the cuts and now I love it.
the voice is but an instrument
voice is the original instrument
I loved it immediately! I love things that are unique. And the cutting here all stays with the tempo.
It's literally like deciphering code
This track is sooo dark... came out in January during one of the darkest and most traumatic times I’ve ever experienced... lots of emotions . Lots of emotions and pain in this one. Thank you James
You doing okay now ?
This song for a Karaoke night.
i don't know whether performing this is harder technically or emotionally
A bottle of Jack Daniels neat should help, now where's that micamaphone ...
loooooooooool
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Exactly
I lo-oo-ve th-thi-this so-son-ng!!!!
Aakash Sky I feel like I'm trying to grab onto to something that is moving too quick for me. And it's sweeping over me with hallucinations that I can't control both beautiful and terrifying
Aleyah Malone The song makes u feel that way?? Cool..
Aakash Sky sa-me
:'D LMAO
It feels like a return to his roots.
Lucas A. Exactly. I miss his truly experimental production and minimalism. You just cant find stuff exactly like Tep and the logic or klavierwerke anywhere. It used to be that you copuldn't predict what Blake would do next.
mike12jrw1111113 totally agree
There is ROOTS TO THIS?! score
I cannot stop listening to this. I love how this new material sounds like he has perfected his old sound.
He definitely mastered his art
This song reminds me of my time on my solo trip to London. It was the only song I bumped while I walked and explored the city. Can’t wait for many more trips in the future.
That really painted a picture ! I hope you have many great travels ahead of you
This track deserves a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - for production alone. I’ve listened to it since it can out and get more blown away as time goes by. A truly perfect work.
Everyone that's freaking out about how James chopped his vocals obviously hasn't listened to any of his EPs.
James has chopped in the past but not for an entire song this song is nothing like his old shit
I love this song tho it's futuristic sounding
This is very much like his James Blake (EP) the track Unluck is a good example of how he chopped up his tracks
Unluck is from a LP, and your comparison does not make sense
Yeah, his singles and indie releases especially are very abstract -- not at all like his major label releases.
Going to sing this to my wife at our wedding
Why...
Honey, are you having a sezuire?
I'm like imagining a groom doing finger guns at his bride as he lip syncs this song and its cracking me up
May the force be with you.
Good luck with that
Here in 2023. Still sounds as fresh as it did in Jan 2018
I have a hunch that Thom Yorke is loving this
Rishi el paisano god you’re so right. It sounds just like a radiohead song 😂
I think so too
Absolutely...
james blade runner 2049
Blade 😑😑😑😑😑BLAKE .you must have pressed the d with confidence as if it’s a walk to narnia to get to the k😏just kidding lil’dudet
😆😆😆 👍🏾 That's hilarious
Lmao
H.Y. Lee I’m so glad I found your comment. I’ve been trying to figure out what this reminds me of lol
This sounds very "CYMK-"era James & I honestly love it😍😍😍
James Blake is a very special composer and performer. Modern contemporary music.
I've been listening to this song so much that I actually came up with a meaning. The car beside you is your partner. Sometimes they move ahead without you, and if that happens, the only thing you can do is to move ahead, to keep going, you don't go backwards. It's also literal, in a way. About the need to clear our heads, sometimes you need to take a drive and think about stuff to came to conclusions you needed to make. The song repeats the same verses over and over, but they sound sketchy, confusing, except for the final part, on where the verse is delivered slowly and clear. Your mind it's clear, for a brief moment.
James is a motherfucking genius.
I think it's more referring to any general person we encounter in our lives. Sometimes we feel like others are moving ahead of us and that we're falling behind. We're all moving forward because of the nature of time and existence, so it doesn't matter. No sense in trying to make conclusions in our head with the chemicals we consume, we will never know. We're not going backwards. I think the vocals are reminiscent of drug/trip experiences and the delay alludes to the delay we feel like we experience in life.
can't imagine how good the album will be if this is just the beginning
no album ...just a single
romit chahar
A single for an album that hasn't been announced yet soon
Jeremaih Merr He did a show in London like 2 weeks ago and then also supported Kendrick a week later and I went to see both. He showed us several new tracks. Be very excited. Especially look out for 'i can't believe the way we flow' because it's gorgeous. I'll say it again, be very excited.
Good luck performing this live
hel en omstreken lmao top comment
🙊🙉
You need to educate yourself. James can play any of his music live. That is how he started his career. It’s called chopping and looping.
I like to believe he can, there’s a repeater effect in GarageBand so I’m sure he has a more complex way of pulling this off live!
I worked security at Governor's Ball a few years ago, when James Blake was headlining it. He did indeed perform this live, I couldn't believe my ears! It was just awesome. :-D
still his best song
James Blake is on another level, genius status. Being able to fit vocals on such a glitchy and dissonant track is incredible
Congratulations, this is officially the next level
Seriously... thank you
Played this song on a cold January night in New York City. Left my group of friends to walk by myself because nothing was going right that night and a few shots of whatever I drank in I saw this song on reddit. Never really listening to James Blake before I decided to give it a try and OH MY GOD that was EXACTLY what I needed that night
he's so ahead of his time it's amazing
I love this because it's a metaphor (I think) for feeling left behind when others appear to be doing well. But it's also a vivid visual illusion that's disconcerting in its own right. I hate sitting in a parked car when the car next to me starts moving. Gives me a real scare thinking my car is sliding backwards.
Yeah no he was most likely just high as fuck
This is stunning af and I need this album and I need these 2k18 tour dates. I can see this track as a sort of modern throwback to songs like CMYK he did back in the day. You can hear his signature style but always changing it up and elevating it. This is not saying he’s being repetitive to his og stuff but that he’s just perfecting his craft and maybe revisiting it. James Blake knows how to do the damn thang and does this shit well. I saw him in Chicago and cried .. his performance was so lovely
Right now he's touring europe as an opener for Kendrick
when i was listening to this song for the first time
i was like wtf is this song
my thought process was like ,who the hell in the world would listen to this song
night on same day : music of this song playing in my head
me next day: playing this song in loop
and getting relief from stresss
this feels like the early stages of a panic attack
Olly no it doesn’t it’s far too soothing for that.
Me too, I also suffer from both but doesn’t make me feel like that! Strange how the brain works.
+Metkaf my friend was freaked out the first time he heard it. I've only felt a strange comfort .
Not really.
Funny you mention that...
I've shared this song so much because I love it and the video but nobody gets it.
Extremly experimental and anxiety giving. It feels like time/life is flying by next to you and you dont realise it
Foxyliciouz And it is. Every phase of life is just 'two minutes'. Scary... but make it last, lovingly, creatively, gracefully.
! bangla
Because it is
To me it is not anxiety inducing at all, and I got anxiety issues. If I follow the beat or bassline I get a relaxing feeling, not anxiety inducing at all, except when the song mutes the beat, which was not often-
This is old skool Blake. Wasn't expecting him to go back to making weird shit after the Kendrick and Jay-Z collabs.
Can you refer me to some older songs of him that sounds like this one?? I really loved this tune
Luke Berrie yea
Look up Sparing the Horse or Give a Man a Rod
Klavierwerke dude
Weird shit? More like masterpieces
This is the most beautiful, achieved and technical videoclip of 2018 to me.
I’m dying to see a Nicolas Jaar - James Blake collaboration. Top creativity boost right there
That was an amazing experience. If music like this didn't exist I feel like life would be so monotonous
James Blake is the one kid at school who has all the new expensive lunchables..
accurate! he is an only child, and has a song titled "I Never Learnt To Share"
what a fucking genius man, for real
Lyrics**
Chemical days so I can draw
Conclusions in my ways
I've come to take as law
Always you [?]
Always you [?]
[Chorus]
If the car beside you moves ahead
As much as it feels as though you're dead
You're not going backwards
You're not going backwards
If the car beside you moves ahead
As much as it feels as though you're dead
You're not going backwards
You're not going backwards
[Bridge]
How can you sleep?
How can you sleep?
[Verse 2]
Chemical days so I can draw
Conclusions I've come to take as law
Always Pakistan and Netherlands
[Chorus]
If the car beside you moves ahead
As much as it feels as though you're dead
You're not going backwards
You're not going backwards
If the car beside you moves ahead
As much as it feels as though you're dead
You're not going backwards
You're not going backwards
Michael Potts thanks
I don't really think that the Pakistan and Netherlands part is correct lol
Elliot Harper It is.
i think the last line of first vers eis something like
Always, you be the other side
How? I only get the part where if he says if the car beside you beside you.. then as if you're dead!! That's it!! Criine
This song gets better the more you listen to it.
It’s still getting better
This is the start of something dark and beautiful.
this song definitely grows on you after more listens
dreaming awake. i think that is what art is made for.
this song is a gem
Slow dive
Car is a 91-96 C4 Corvette btw
Thanks, man
looks like 91-93 cuz theres no passenger air bag!
I'm officially in love with you now
Jaidev Tyagi thanks
It’s stuff like this that makes James Blake my favorite living musician.
Beauty as always
Insanely beautiful work as always! Did anyone else notice the 1-800-Dinosaur sign at 2:48?
Tanner Bowman totally did...He's too good.
haha that little bit 👌
I wonder how many babies were made because of James Blake's music
To this one none unless you have both been licking acid tabs all day...
This has happened before before
manymanymany
And here's the classic James Blake I first fell in love with
Like all true artists, Blake keeps pushing the boundariess. He seeks no audience, just expresses himself without fear of public acceptance. Cold digital edits/reverb/effects overtakes, devours, then reinterprets what was once the warmth of his voice into a bewilderingly synthesized William Gibson sonic frontier in sick staccato. The visuals were locked in, like peanut butter to jelly with bacon on top. Is anyone else hearing some possible Boards Of Canada inspired analog keyboard work floating around it?
It feels like I'm in a locked room, sitting directly in front of a lunatic in a straight jacket, listening to his advice. Especially the "IF THE CAR-IF THE CAR besi-AR besi-side you moves a-moves ahead-head" Parts. Like he's trying to tell me something really important or encouraging but he can't, so it just comes out jumbled and anxiety filled. A very unique feeling...
Wow this is crazy!
I love it , since day one.
i feel like if anyone else tried to do what james is doing here they would have lost all melody but he's just out here...on some next level shit. can't be touched
James Blake has the most beautiful breathing sounds
This is some god tier experimentation, way to go Blake for upping the ante!
I think if i take lsd and watch this i will go back in time to right before i took this acid and watched this
JD Mewes then I would comment on wether I could actually comment on your comment
doesn't matter if you like james blake or not, you have to admit this guy always put interesting stuff out which demands more than one listening.
I come back to this song every once in a while, absolutely mind blowing. It feels like it was fucking crafted in 2070 and scratches a part of my brain like I can’t describe, is this the future? 😂
Timeleeeeeeeeess
I wanna live in James Blake's world!
I found this song late. But better late than never.
His love for hip hop flows so fluently in this song. It's gorgeous
I sound so dumb trying to sing along to this song haha
this is the future of music
No
Natural Father, Autechre is the future of music.
Why is nobody talking about how perfect the music video is timed to the song
mood right now, its 4 AM, I'm in my bed with all the lights off.
bliss
James I doubt you read these comments, but if you ever do you need to know that your music is unique and wonderful. This is my favorite song you've made so far, but I love all your stuff. Thank you for sharing the beauty.
Wow, feels like being stuck in an infinite glitch. Amazing. 💖
As soon as the beat started the hairs on my arms stood on end not to mention the screwed vocals. Dear James Blake, I'm sick of you doing this everytime, you're the best!
Type of song only you can appreciate rather than sharing it with your friends..
'cause they won't get it :(
The lighting switches with the music. This is almost synesthetic.
love the vocal cuts
This is the best thing he ever did
Love that he’s managed to maintain the same level of haunting vocals despite his constant evolution as an artist.
Also, he makes sick beats.
Others lives move at a higher pace, it seems as if you aren’t progressing anywhere when compared. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t going anywhere. We all have a destination and you are just as “alive” as the person beside you... unless you’re next to a dead person then I’d say no, they have already reached their destination.
Or so that’s what I interpret from this song?
That's how I interpreted it as well. It's like when we get stuck in an existential rut and the world just seems to zoom past you and you become detached to it thus becoming "dead" to the external world but life always keeps moving so you kind of just get dragged along with it in a detached manner.
It's actually quite comforting because you just need to start actively taking the wheel once more, you haven't been left behind.
Very much so.
brb world, going to be stuck in a james blake limbo for a day with just this song. cannot wait for the album. and to see his tour with kendrick
I love this so so so much, gosh.
Something is so mysteriously beautiful about the chorus to this song. Speaks to me in a way I can't really explain, or understand for that matter
So damm unique !! Sounds like a totally new sound never delved into before. James Blake you are a revolutionary of the music world
You ever heard of Burial? Definitely check out the album Untrue if you like this mood.
He did this sort of sound in his early work and there were a few similar artists at the time
someone has never listened to his early stuff
Its been done by thom yorke too, man! But James Blake its incredible indeed
Wally Brando right? His first projects were similar to this vibe. New fans must not know it but they should dig deep into his beginnings
Idk what it was but the longer the song played my heart started beating faster and for some reason I started to really like it
I have so much love for this, it's the perfect mix of a producer a singer and a cinematographer creating something beautiful
It's nice seeing an artist actually trying something different.
If you don’t know old Blake, you won’t understand this direction.
This is a pretty boring/sad beat compared to anything on his releases in 2010
I think you're being the opposite of objective. Liking and not liking something is purely subjective. So get off your high horse.
I know 'old Blake' very well. Since that second album, bar the features on the mount Kimbie album, it's all gone down hill. This could be rock bottom.
*tips fedora*
I dunno man, "no-no" is a pretty objective technical term.
This sounds just like a panic attack feels sometimes
agree
This song and video is actually a musical experience. I have never heard anything like this. This is creativity in it's absolute. My ears have officially been blessed.
This song is just unbelievably beautiful. The way that errily synthy in the instrumental is paired with the distorted lyrics is just bliss.
Gotta love James blakes style so unique
So wonderful! 💖
One of the most gorgeous tracks I've ever come across
A true pioneer of musical exploration. From the musicians who know the ground you've covered, thank you.
Yes, so friggin stoked for this new album.
Yay! More James Blake!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
James you touch a place of my soul that feels like you gave birth to me and are my mother.
Real shit.
Finally some old school james blake. Good to see he's going back to his roots, if ever so slightly.
I guess this is the type of music, my unborn yet children will listen, and I'll like "what's wrong with you?!"