** Spin Magazine 8/10 **
** Stool Pigeon 10/10 **
** Their project is one that invites thought, but crucially doesn’t neglect to elicit feeling - BBC MUSIC **
** Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland remain enigmas who are unique to the abstract chill-hop dub sound they’ve forged. OHM Music - 4/5 **
** Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland—have never quite sounded so purely themselves before. Resident Advisor - 4/5 **
** The real power of this record lies in its superficial ignorance, concealing all the working, waiting, learning, and planning that lurks beneath - The Quietus **


DEAN BLUNT & INGA COPELAND - BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL (Hyperdub)

Yndi Halda - Under Summer

Dean Blunt - The Redeemer

Dean Blunt - Black Metal

Pre-eminent H-Pop geniuses, Hype Williams, deliver the crackish satisfaction of 'One Nation', their third album proper and first for the hugely exciting Hippos in Tanks label - home to Laurel Halo, Games, SLEEP ∞ OVER, Grimes, D'eon, Autre Ne Veut and others. With the same fugged-up blend of sly insouciance and deceptively naive production that made 'Find Out What Happens...' so vital, Denna Francis and Roy D. Blunt have assembled a sublime followup which makes so much else out there seem over-earnest and over-dressed. 

From the warped VHS signature of 'Ital' inwards, their surreal grasp of possessed, private synth music and deliberately economical production is delivered with innate confidence and the blackest humour. Whether it's the hilariously frank self-help samples and new age tones of the first 'Untitled' or the poor chap chatting about Peregrines who is so abruptly cut off in the second 'Untitled (And Your Batty's So Round)' to what sounds like a "chillout" version of track 3 from Pita's 'Get Out', the juxtapositions are knowingly acute and unforced. It's partly that aspect, the fluid transfer of concise but free wandering thought processes into sound, and their consolidation of free psyche methods with a bass-soaked UK flavour, that makes their music so interesting while keeping their semi-conscious illusion so intact and enigmatic. 

Also, by eschewing glossy production they've cut straight to the essence, or the truth of the matter, and this is a mighty, mighty beautiful thing. Inside 'One Nation' you'll find some potential future favourites like the gobsmacking post-House condensation of 'Mitsubishi', the Juicy Fruit tang of 'William, Shotgun Sprayer', the brittle but gloopy slowfast vibe of 'Warlord' and the heart-melting R&B cover 'Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior', all heard through their inimitably cracked veneer. 

What Hype Williams hold back is equal to what they put in and this sense of considered restraint makes for a listening experience pretty much unlike anything out there. And ultimately, beyond the haze of mystery, 'One Nation' is a moving, romantic, almost melancholy listening experience, and one we just cannot stop playing. Beyond essential.

HYPE WILLIAMS - ONE NATION (HIPPOS IN TANKS) - 03/2011

01 - Ital

02 - Untitled

03 - William, Shotgun Sprayer

Hype Williams - Businessline

05 - Warlord

Dean Blunt - Lush

Dean Blunt - Blow

Dean Blunt - 50 Cent

Dean Blunt - Heavy

Dean Blunt - 100

Dean Blunt - Molly & Aquafina

Dean Blunt - X

Dean Blunt - Forever

Dean Blunt - Hush

Dean Blunt - Country

Dean Blunt - Punk

Dean Blunt - Mersh

Dean Blunt - Grade

The ever unpredictable Dean Blunt, formerly one half of Hype Williams, appears to have dropped a new album entirely without fanfare. As Tiny Mix Tapes report, Russian website Billboard Afisha is offering a 10-track collection from the art prankster titled Stone Island, which he reportedly recorded in his Moscow hotel room while in the country recently.

There’s no doubt the voice on the record is Blunt’s, and musically it’s an obvious companion piece to The Redeemer, his excellent album from earlier this year, with lachrymose strings, harp glissandos, found sound and voicemail messages peppering the mostly downbeat songs. The voice of Joanne Roberston, a guest on the previous album, also makes an appearance on ‘Heat’.

Released August 25th 2015

Dean Blunt - Ten

Dean Blunt - Heat (feat. Joanne Robertson)

Dean Blunt - Eight

Dean Blunt - Stone Island

Dean Blunt - Six

Dean Blunt - Four

Dean Blunt - Three

Dean Blunt - Two

Dean Blunt - One

From the album 'Under Summer' 

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Under Summer

Yndi Halda - Together Those Leaves

Yndi Halda - Golden Threads from the Sun

Yndi Halda - This Very Flight

Yndi Halda - Helena

01 (Venice Dreamway)

Hype Williams - 2

03 3

04 4

05 5

11 11

"Not since The Postal Service have we heard an album that joins together electro and pop so perfectly.” Album of the Week - Rough Trade Shop

Plastic Operator are the perfect pop group for our times. Internationally minded, technically savvy and most importantly blessed with the ability to sculpt sublimely soulful pop moments from raw digital clay, Plastic Operator may exist in a parallel space to the tired pop pap in the Top 10, but what a wonderful space it is.

Plastic Operator - Folder

Plastci Operator - Parasols

"Enjoy Eternal Bliss" was released in 2008 through the following labels: Big Scary Monsters (Europe), Burnt Toast Vinyl (US), XTAL Records (Japan). 2007 and 2008 was spent touring that album everywhere that someone would listen to them. They are writing new songs for a new record now, that will be released in 2011.

Yndi Halda are one of the top post rock bands featured on Last FM clocking in an impressive 1.2 millions plays. 

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