This week’s Listening Party focuses on the musician James Blake. Listening Party is a curated weekly column promoting music discovery and encouraging concert-going. The column features someone we’ve been jamming out to and who we can recommend to the masses. Each Listening Party artist has an upcoming show at a local NYC venue. Grab your headphones and read on.

WHO: James Blake, the 25-year old Mecury Prize-nominated electronic music producer/singer-songwriter from London.

WE SAY: A musician that can not only croon about emotional topics, but can also have the audience pounding their feet on the dance floor within a few bars.