James Blake Announces Tour with Airhead [SCHEDULE]

James Blake has yet to dish the details on his third studio album, but he recently unveiled a run of five North American shows with Airhead.

Check them out below (he is also playing Paris Oct. 30 as part of the Pitchfork Music Festival):

11/30/14: Toronto, Ontario, Canada @ Mod Club (this show will not feature Airhead)
12/1/14: Brooklyn, New York @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
12/5/14: Miami, Florida @ Young Arts
12/7/14: San Francisco, California @ The Chapel
12/9/14: Los Angeles, California @ The Roxy

With two albums under his belt, Blake spoke with Billboard this summer at Bonnaroo.

"I've had a completely different life since the first album," Blake said. "I've had a lot more freedom since the first album, too. I get a little more time to do my thing. The one I'm writing now ... I have more focus doing this than I've had before. And I'm having more fun, I think."

As far as that third album?

"Every song is about 50 percent done," he said with a smile. "I'm getting there. There's people I've been talking to for a while who, so far, we hadn't really linked up just because of scheduling. But recently, we have."

There might be some superstar features, too. Blake said he had been writing with Bon Iver and "sporadically Kanye [West], when he's around."

'Ye said Blake was one of the GOATs in a radio interview last November — "Just go listen to his music and say, 'Hey, that's Kanye's favorite artist'" — and Blake responded in kind this February in an interview with Rolling Stone.

"I thought it was nice," Blake said. "I've been inspired by a lot of the music he's made. I was certainly inspired by Yeezus. It made me rethink what I'm doing. It's one of those albums, whether you like it or not, it should impact you in that way."

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