Blunts unsettling, paranoid presence and great music make for a memorable assault on the senses
Dean Blunts reputation precedes him. Earlier this year, at the ICA, fans coming to listen to his music, which mixes elements of dub, hip-hop, electronic and post-punk, instead found themselves watching a standup routine by the American comedian Kevin Hart on DVD, while men in vodka-branded T-shirts wandered empty-handed through the room. Even when he does materialise (at the ICA he did so several hours later), Blunt has been known to assault the audience with discombobulating noise and frenzied strobes.
Its with some apprehension, then, that a hometown crowd gathers tonight to watch the east Londoner promote his album Black Metal , which came out earlier this month. Red lights glare through a fog of dry ice. Two imposing men in black suits flank the stage. Jazz plays for the best part of an hour, then the lights go down and a sound like rain hammering against a tin roof fills the room. This goes on for 10 minutes before Blunt appears under a spotlight.
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by Killian Fox via Electronic music | The Guardian
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