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dean blunt - the redeemer - hippos in tanks / world music - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. I Run New York
2. The Pedigree
3. Demon
4. Flaxen
5. V
6. The Redeemer
7. Seven Seals Of Affirmation
8. Walls Of Jericho
9. Make It Official
10. Need 2 Let U Go
11. Dread
12. Y3
13. Papi
14. Mmix
15. All Dogs Go To Heaven
16. Imperial Gold
17. Predator
18. Brutal
19. Par

London-based artist Dean Blunt presents his first official solo LP, The Redeemer, released on his own World Music imprint and Hippos in Tanks. Tip!

The Redeemer follows his 2012 solo introduction The Narcissist II, which was a narcotic ode to an unspecified ‘girl’. The Redeemer proceeds with a yet more direct and heartfelt message, with a notable lifting of the veil of tape hiss and blurred signifiers that characterised Blunt's previous work, both solo and with Inga Copeland as Hype Williams.


The result is a profound artistic statement as singular as it is somehow familiar, its strange, bruised grandeur rising from a disorientating swirl of contradictory emotion, the curse of love. Blunt evokes bygone memories, from first kisses to humiliation and heartache, be it as the heartbreaker or the heartbroken, with the acknowledgement that sometimes the two can exist in the same person. This is undoubtedly Blunt's most romantic collection of compositions, but it's a love that dwells in nightmares as well as in dreams. The listener becomes the character in Blunt's unflattering romance, receiving scorned voicemail messages and whispers from lovers.

Musically the nineteen pieces found on The Redeemer are replete with vivid mosaics of sound and imagery, orchestral sonatas drifting into ravaged 4am ballads and feral psychedelia. Sonically and lyrically, Blunt captures the essence of modern romance: delusional, infatuated and all-consuming.