Dean Blunt – Black Metal [2LP] Drone / Minimalism it’s an optical illusion but

it’s an optical illusion but it works

clicks and garden chimes

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

with the same blinding fixation on tonal extrapolation

but generally that’s how it went

Dean Blunt – Black Metal [2LP] Drone / Minimalism it’s an optical illusion but"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