James Blake is back with his seventh studio offering, a project fittingly titled Trying Times, which serves as his debut independent project. This 12-track project arrives following 2023’s Playing Robots Into Heaven and Bad Cameo, the collaborative effort from 2024 featuring Lil Yachty.

Trying Times incorporates previously debuted singles like “Death of Love”—which pulls a sample from Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker”—alongside “I Had a Dream She Took My Hand.”

Supporting Blake on Trying Times is British rapper Dave, who previously recruited Blake to produce a quartet of songs for his 2025 release The Boy Who Played the Harp, as well as American vocalist Monica Martin, who has teamed up with Blake on two prior occasions: the 2021 release “Show Me” and the 2022 remix “Go Easy, Kid.”

Check out the complete tracklist for ‘Trying Times’ below.

  1. “Walk Out Music”
  2. “Death of Love”
  3. “I Had a Dream She Took My Hand”
  4. “Trying Times”
  5. “Make Something Up”
  6. “Didn’t Come To Argue”
  7. “Days Go By”
  8. “Obsession”
  9. “Doesn’t Just Happen”
  10. “Rest Of Your Life”
  11. “Through The High Wire”
  12. “Feel It Again”
  13. “Just A Little Higher”