UK electronic act Hype Williams have always been shrouded in hazy enigma, so it’s hard to know whether to pay attention to the announcement that their lineup no longer includes Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, and is now a project by “Slaughter” and “Silvermane”. Whatever the case, Rainbow Edition glimmers with all the uneasy, floating ambience of their earlier work, cut with spoken word and a surreal interpolation of Scotland the Brave (Loud Challenge). With celestial choral waves (Spinderella’s Dream), glitchy hip-hop confidence (#blackcardsmatter) and prismatic swaths of synth, it might feel aimless, but the meandering is beautifully immersive.
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