In an interview with Spinner, James Blake has talked about his future plans and second album.

“A lot of the vocal music I’ve been making has been really clubby”, claims Blake, whose 2011 debut album leaned more on the isolationist pop side of his music.

“That’s mainly because I’ve had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence. I’ve been doing quite a few DJ sets recently, which have been really fun.”

“I think it’s going to be a bit more aggressive, to be honest”, Blake replies when asked about the new album’s direction. “It seems that way. I don’t feel more aggressive, it’s just been … it’s just how I feel. In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced — I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Blake says there’s “no reason” for him not to work with Mount Kimbie again (Blake was, for a short period, a member of the group’s live show), and that he’ll be “making sure” to visit Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, a recent collaborator with Blake, “as much as possible when I’m in the U.S … I know that he’ll be in London at some point, as well.”

“We really do want to work on some more stuff together. We get on as people. He’s a great guy, and the collaborations that I normally form are based on friendships, not on A&R moves, so that’s the way it’ll happen.”