Thanks all for your suggestions/comments. I will recheck my cartridge alignment just to make sure but the little I've played of the album, I think Shakey's right so I won't be stressing this one.
I also had a ZYX that had trouble tracking on some James Blake tracks. Since then I have realigned the cart and once everything was dialed in better, I am no longer having trouble tracking on these bass heavy tracks.
Everything I've heard of his has stoooopid loud bass, and perhaps your vinyl simply was cut appropriately. That's a big tradeoff in vinyl cutting: how to handle the low end.
Is it happening all the time or just where it rides the warps? I could easily be wrong but recommend breaking out the HFN/RR test disc and check the H & V resonance tests.
I've known normally stable carts to react badly to "pinchwarps" on some discs. Most unsettling when it happens.
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