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Friends That Break Your Heart

Friends That Break Your Heart is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter and producer James Blake. It was released by Republic Records and Polydor Records on 8 October 2021, after initially being scheduled for release on 10 September 2021 before being postponed due to delays in physical production as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Friends That Break Your Heart

8 October 2021 (2021-10-08)

  • The Green Building (Los Angeles, California)
  • No Idle Campus (Los Angeles, California)

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Promotion and release[edit]

James Blake announced Friends That Break Your Heart on 22 July 2021, and it is scheduled for release on 10 September 2021.[1][2] "Say What You Will" was released as the album's lead single on the same day.[3] "Life Is Not the Same" was released as the second single on 20 August 2021.[4] On 3 September 2021, Blake announced the album was postponed due to delays in physical production as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and would be released on 8 October 2021.[5] "Famous Last Words" was released as the third single on 13 September 2021.[6] The album is finally released on 8 October 2021.[7]

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"Life Is Not the Same" features background vocals by

Joji

"Coming Back" features additional vocals by

Dominic Maker

Notes


Sample credits

– additional arrangement (tracks 1, 3), structure (tracks 5, 7)

Jameela Jamil

– background vocals (track 2)

Joji

– additional vocals (tracks 3, 6, 7)

Dominic Maker

Khushi – additional arrangement (tracks 3, 6), additional vocals (track 6)

Hal Ritson – additional piano (track 3), guitar (track 3), bass (track 3)

Richard Adlam – additional programming (track 3)

Rob Bisel – engineering (; track 3)

SZA

– programming (track 3)

Tom Elmhirst

James Blake – vocals (track 6, 11), keyboard (track 6), programming (track 6), drum programming (track 6), (track 11), synthesizer (track 11), synth bass (track 11)

Wurlitzer

– Rhodes (track 11), Mellotron (track 11), acoustic guitars (track 11)

Rick Nowels

John Christopher Fee – keyboards (track 11)

– string arrangement (track 12)

Nico Muhly

Nathan Schram – viola (track 12)