Dean Blunt, formerly of high-concept, low stakes duo Hype Williams (with Inga Copeland), has established a reputation as a lackadaisical provocateur. Screwing around with interviewers, releasing records full of weeded riffs on already weeded hip-hop styles, and well, calling his project Hype Williams will do that to you. More often than not though, Blunt's indirect approach to sincerity occupies a singular and sometimes transcendent niche: The sad-sack Miami Vice soundtrack if it were scored by Harmonia of Hype's 2010 album, Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Gettin' Reel remains a highlight of 2010s murkwave; the entirety of Blunt's 2013 solo album, The Redeemer, adds up to a kind of Microphones' The Glow Pt. 2 for Timbs-rocking hipster urbanites.
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