Sure, David Lynch is already making electronic music under his own name, but a listen to the new Dean Blunt LP could certainly fool one into thinking the duo’s ghostly brand of 3 AM R&B shot straight outta the auteur’s brain and into the grooves of a long-forgotten private press soul record. Hyperdub confirmed that Blunt, the male half of Hype Williams, leaked a new solo record(/mixtape?) called The Narcissist II on Sunday. The female half of Hype Williams, Inga Copeland, is featured toward the end of the free recording.
If The Weeknd delves lyrically into the scary side of the late night lifestyle, The Narcissist II is like the soundtrack to a horror film. It’s like INLAND EMPIRE through a funk filter: both beautiful and terrifying. Full of samples, cell phone vibrations, and enough atmospherics to make you take a baseball bat to bed, the LP likely won’t be around online for free for long (download here).
Meanwhile, Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland have a new LP coming out April 17 through Hyperdub called Black Is Beautiful (FYI: it is not under the Hype Williams moniker), and if it’s anything like this one, fans will be scrambling to get it. Or get away from it. The tracklisting for Black Is Beautiful is listed below:
01. Venice Dreamway
02. 2
03. 3
04. 4
05. 5
06. 6
07. 7
08. 8
09. 9
10. 10
11. 11
12. 12
13. 13
14. 14
15. 15
• Hype Williams: http://www.youtube.com/pollyjacobsen
