Fucked Up respond to James Blake’s ‘Like The End’ artwork showing smiley Las Vegas Sphere on fire

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Fucked Up have responded to James Blake’s ‘Like The End’ single artwork, which bears some resemblance to the album art for their 2018 release ‘Dose Your Dreams’.Blake announced the new single yesterday (November 13) and shared artwork showing a big smiley face on what looks like the Las Vegas Sphere on fire.As their ‘Dose Your Dreams’ artwork also features a huge smiley face in the middle of a big city, Fucked Up quoted Blake’s tweet announcing the single and simply wrote “wtf” as a response, before sharing a fan-made image of the electronic singer-songwriter and producer’s cover combined with their own photography.It seems all in good humour, however, as when Stereogum reached out to the band they confirmed that “it’s just fun.”Your move, @jamesblake pic.twitter.com/bFFzRmJR0h— simpsonsXcore (@SimpsonsXcore) November 13, 2024The soulful, heartfelt new single follows Blake’s collaborative album with Lil Yachty, ‘Bad Cameo’, which was released on June 28, his feature on Normani’s debut album ‘Dopamine’, and his single ‘Thrown Around’, which was his first release as an independent artist.

He announced in April that he was no longer with Republic Records, which he’d been signed to for over a decade.At the time, he explained, “It feels good to be independent because I’ve wanted to take things into my own hands for a long time,” and added: “After over a decade on a label it feels scary to go independent but here we are.

As someone who hates spam, I promise not to send you annoying emails. Just trying to break free of the algorithm gods gatekeeping art.”Over the summer, Blake also released the surprise EP ‘CMYK 002 – Let Her Know’, explaining that it wasn’t a sequel to his 2010 EP ‘CMYK’ but a new release on his independent.