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Album Reviews 21.06.21

Dean Blunt – Black Metal 2

Few British artists working today – in any medium – are as consistently invigorating as Dean Blunt. Ever since he and Inga Copeland steered hypnagogic pop’s somnambulant shimmer into darker…

News 18.07.22

Dean Blunt drops new London Tonight Freestyle featuring Skepta, A$AP Rocky and Novelist

…duties. After the Black Metal 2 artist shared the track Novelist tweeted, “Dean Blunt leaked our song. A$AP Rocky, Skepta & Novelist.” He also wrote, “I aspire for Dean Blunt

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News 31.07.20

Read a new book about the work of Dean Blunt

Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) is available now. Publisher the87press has released Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit), a book-length essay on the work of Dean Blunt by scholar Dhanveer Singh…

News 20.09.23

There was a Dean Blunt soundtrack at Burberry’s Summer 2024 fashion show

…bespoke score featured “95 [percent] unreleased Dean Blunt” and “a couple of current favourites.” [sic] Dean Blunt’s last full-length offering, Black Metal 2, dropped in June 2021. At the time…

Dean Blunt A$AP Rocky
News 14.10.21

Dean Blunt drops new versions of A$AP Rocky collaboration, STOOZY

The pair’s most recent link-up surfaced online back in April. Dean Blunt has dropped two new dub versions of his track STOOZY, which features New York rapper A$AP Rocky. The…

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News 27.08.20

Did Dean Blunt just release a film script?

Blunt’s latest work follows an up and coming musician called Raven. Dean Blunt appears to have shared a new film script. Titled Disasterpiece, the 32-page PDF was released on Twitter…

News 31.05.22

NINA shares new Dean Blunt produced single, grandiosee

The track is the latest release on Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland’s World Music label. Clocking in at just shy of a minute, grandiosee is the latest release from NINA…

Dean Blunt SLUDGE
News 23.03.22

Dean Blunt shares new freestyle, SLUDGE

Blunt freestyling in a desert. Shared on 21 March, Blunt delivers the short freestyle over lo-fi guitar. Filmed by Kamil Abbas – who is affiliated with A$AP Rocky, and is…

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News 30.03.22

Dean Blunt shares new STOOZY video with A$AP Rocky

The Black Metal 2 artist shared the new footage at the end of last week. Featuring Dean Blunt and A$AP Rocky’s collaboration STOOZY, the lo-fi video shows the pair decked…

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News 11.05.22

Dean Blunt covers PJ Harvey and Queens of the Stone Age on new EP

Dean Blunt has released the new EP Freestyles (SS22). The EP is made up of a mix of both old and newer material. It includes the freestyles MORT and SLUDGE…

News 12.12.22

Mica Levi releases new track Skunk Boy. via Dean Blunt’s World Music label

The new track from the London-based musician, producer and composer surfaced online last Friday (9 December). Mica Levi has shared new music via Dean Blunt’s World Music imprint. The short…

News 08.06.21

Dean Blunt announces new album Black Metal 2

The elusive artist has announced the follow-up to Black Metal. Dean Blunt is releasing Black Metal 2 digitally on 11 June via Rough Trade Records. It’ll arrive on vinyl and…

Dean Blunt A$AP Rocky
News 13.04.21

Dean Blunt and A$AP Rocky collaboration, STOOZY, shared online

A new Dean Blunt track has surfaced online. Entitled STOOZY, the hazy two-minute track features A$AP Rocky. It was posted to YouTube yesterday (12 April) and in typical Dean Blunt

Dean Blunt urban hymns
News 13.10.21

Dean Blunt smokes blunts and plays guitar in urban hymns video

…a laptop. It follows the trio on a night-time journey, with the footage stitched together in a collaged style. In typical Dean Blunt fashion, not much has been said about…

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News 07.06.21

Is Kode9 teasing a new Dean Blunt album?

…perhaps, be the artwork for a follow-up to Dean Blunt’s LP Black Metal. Originally released in 2014, Black Metal was crowned Crack Magazine’s top album of the 2010s. The artwork…

Mixes 23.04.23

Sunday Mix: KEYAH/BLU

…– your Tirzah’s, Dean Blunt’s and Klein’s, for instance – while also making room for music from the likes of Eartheater, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Jean Dawson, the singer and…

the best albums of 2021
list article 06.12.21

The Top 50 Albums of 2021

Our pick of the best albums of 2021 – from field recordings to the divorce album, via club experiments and self-care rituals. Music that soundtracked another unpredictable year in the…

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list article 05.12.22

The Top 25 Tracks of 2022

Our compilation of the best songs of 2022 – from jaw-dropping epics to ephemeral summer bops, via club bangers, UK drill-laced stompers, and comeback singles. These are the tunes we…

Profiles 01.12.21

John Glacier: Look closer

News 30.01.24

John Glacier shares new track, Money Shows, featuring Eartheater

…and features five new tracks. The EP follows on from the Dean Blunt and Vegyn collaborator’s 2021 debut project SHILOH: Lost For Words and also her link-up with Surf Gang…

News 04.05.22

A$AP Rocky teases new release starring Rihanna

…View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Rihanna Fan Account (@rihfantastic) A$AP Rocky also recently appeared in a video with Dean Blunt for their collaborative track STOOZY….

Album Reviews 18.05.23

Bar Italia: Tracey Denim review

…of mystique while steadfastly refusing to play the press game: no interviews, no explanations, just a pair of spare and skittery LPs and an EP on Dean Blunt’s World Music…

Album Reviews 20.03.23

Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) review

…Love, Tumor (real name Sean Bowie) has been shapeshifting through everything from Dean Blunt-style subdued R&B to bombastic Prince-esque funk and freakout psychedelia with a remarkable confidence. The hallmark of…

News 21.07.22

Jockstrap, bar italia and Snapped Ankles join End of the Road 2022 line-up

…Hailu Mergia and bar italia, who are on Dean Blunt‘s World Music imprint. There’s also Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Snapped Ankles, John Francis Flynn and a collaboration…

Aesthetic 09.11.21

POiSON ANNA is finding the most extreme version of herself through sound

Mixes 19.07.20

Sunday Mix: Liss

Initially headed for indie-pop stardom back in 2016, Danish band Liss instead opted to pause and let singer Søren Holm recover from a mental health crisis. Now living communally in…

Bandcamp Week
Long Reads 03.07.20

Bandcamp Week on crackaud.io

scratcha
Mixes 01.07.20

Bandcamp Week – Scratcha

Playing an eye-watering number of tracks in just 90 minutes, Scratcha brings the spirit of his classic Rinse shows to this mix for Bandcamp Week – plugging releases new, old…

joe cotch
Mixes 23.08.20

Sunday Mix: Joe Cotch

Cotch International co-founder Joe Cotch soundtracks your Sunday with a mix of slow-moving R&B and UK street soul, plus a smattering of dancehall, Lisbon tarraxo and South African kwaito. Low-key…

Jabu
Mixes 25.10.20

Sunday Mix: Jabu

The Bristol trio – made up of producer Amos Childs and vocalists Jasmine Butt and Alex Rendall – head up the Sunday Mix series in the lead-up to their sophomore…