Since the release of his self-titled debut album in 2011, Blake’s style has made a thoroughly improbable conquest of pop’s commercial mainstream, seeping into hip-hop, R&B and rock.

James Blake finds love, moodily, on 'Assume Form' J (Critic's Pick) Love is a murky, uncertain, only sporadically blissful thing on James Blake’s fourth album, “Assume Form.” ...

Love is a murky, uncertain, only sporadically blissful thing on James Blake’s fourth album, “Assume Form.” But sometimes it manages to break through his chronic melancholy.