This follow-up to the 2014 album by the East Londoner frontman of the mischievous alt-pop duo Hype Williams (named after the video director) is a bizarre, offbeat collection of 10 short songs mixing droll, deep-voiced delivery with a range of almost cinematic instrumentation. Defying genre, but loosely hip-hop, trip-hop, experimental, avant garde, industrial and hypnagogic pop, Blunt speaks slowly over most tracks, coming across as a Hackney answer to Leonard Cohen with an urban underbelly. This is work impossible to define, but with a mischievous variety of sampling of beautiful strings and more, and alluringly strange and beguiling moments such as on the tracks Mugu, Sketamine, Semtex, Nil By Mouth or The Rot. Out on Rough Trade.
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