Dean Blunt – Black Metal [2LP] Drone / Minimalism like Anne LeBaron’s harp picking

like Anne LeBaron’s harp picking its way gingerly through a pin-cushion of pings and scratches from Bailey and bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa

in Studio Litho

it’s an optical illusion but it works

“This sounds beautiful”

and Alicia Merz in "the Coromandel" in Te Ika a Māui or the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand

Dean Blunt – Black Metal [2LP] Drone / Minimalism like Anne LeBaron’s harp picking"Black Metal is Dean Blunt's first album for Rough Trade and it's got stone cold classic written all over it. Seemingly impossible to pin down he takes a swerve once again and delivers his most beautiful piece of work yet. Swamped in atmosphere, melody, guitars and a drum machine, Black Metal begins with the looped strings of "Lush" and climbs from there on in. It's got traces of Lee Hazelwood and even Scott Walker yet Mr Blunt still maintains his