Lola Young and James Blake turn From Down Here into a live Big Weekend moment

Lola Young’s From Down Here continues to gather momentum after she performed the James Blake collaboration live for the first time at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend. The song was written with Blake, Jameela Jamil and Dominic Maker of Mount Kimbie, with Blake, Jamil and Maker also involved in production. That collaborator list gives the track a strong alternative-pop and art-pop pull, even though Young herself is now operating close to the mainstream pop conversation.

What makes the story useful for a 26 May digest is the live crossover. Young performed From Down Here during her own set, then later joined Blake during his set for Make Something Up from Trying Times. That kind of shared-stage moment can do more than a press release because it turns a studio collaboration into something visible, risky and human.

Young’s voice carries a bruised directness that works well against Blake’s spacious, emotionally exposed production world. For indie and alternative readers, this belongs in the digest as a crossover item: not underground in scale, but connected to the same ecosystem of electronic songwriting, confessional pop and artists trying to make vulnerability sound physically present. Source: https://stereogum.com/2500063/lola-young-performs-her-james-blake-collab-for-the-first-time-then-joins-his-set-at-radio-1s-big-weekend/news