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He is best known for his current solo work as well as his previous work as part of avant-garde duo Hype Williams (with Inga Copeland ), and more recently, the hip hop group Babyfather.
About Babyfather. One of many projects by record producer, singer-songwriter, director, and conceptual artist Dean Blunt… A prolific, category-rejecting, art-pop provocateur who’s also part of...
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The Narcissist II (2012) Without a doubt Blunt’s most menacing release, The Narcissist II opens by introducing his works’ oft-to-be-repeated theme of domestic violence. A woman is heard arguing with a man, their diction and inflection indicative of an old film clip, before a gunshot rings out, drifting with the distant sounds of rainfall into the n...
UK2UK Mixtape (2015) “Meditation,” featuring Blunt’s frequent collaborator and perennially dissonant noisemaker Arca, is the lead “single” off of UK2UK, and perhaps the most traditional among its ten tracks — if you can even call them that. “As it was summer, the rave scene was poppin’,” Blunt wheezes nasally somewhere between the warped sirens of ...
The Attitude Era (2012) The duo gave the above quotation to The Guardian to accompany this mix, which resembles UK2UK in track length and “finished/unfinished” quality. When this collection — which includes a “rejected remix” of someone saying “F**kin’ joker,” alleged outtakes from Narcissist and Hype Williams’ One Nation, and a spoken-word treatis...
Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, and Start Gettin’ Reel(2010) You’ve never heard the Pokémon theme song like this, except perhaps in your nightmares: “Gotta catch ’em all, yeah,” slurs a thickly distorted vocal sample on the beginning of Find Out What Happens, the 2010 debut album by the now-defunct Hype Williams. Elsewhere on t...
Watch the Throne (2013) https://youtube.com/watch?v=ADuwA_pIFw0 This one-off collaboration between Blunt and avant guard James Ferraro — the latter associated with now-discontinued Florida label Hippos in Tanks, which put out some of the former’s earliest releases — is actual background music. A minimal hum of party chatter circulates as Blunt murm...
His most overtly political project, U.K. rap trio Babyfather, released the acclaimed full-length BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow in 2016, and his jazzy R&B group Blue Iverson made their debut in 2017. After releasing albums with Joanne Robertson and Delroy Edwards, Blunt issued one of his most approachable records, 2021's Black Metal 2, the sequel to ...
Babyfather is the name of the latest project by the elusive British musician Dean Blunt. It is a painfully raw, emotionally generous, politically charged, intensely intelligent, sometimes...
Active. 2000s - 2020s. Born. in Hackney, London, England. Genre. Pop/Rock. Styles. Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Electronic. Member Of. Babyfather, Blue Iverson, Hype Williams. Articles. Staff Picks. Advanced Search. Remove Ads. 404 Error. This page did not load properly. Sometimes this happens. Please try refreshing the page.
Babyfather, Dean Blunt's hip-hop group, is heading out on a North American tour.
