Dean Blunt’s The Redeemer has been one of this year’s highlights; a strange and sprawling orchestral pop record, yet among the most sumptuous and accessible material the sometime Hype Williams man has yet recorded. "It’s as intoxicating a listen as anything we’ve heard from the duo to date," we said in our review, "drawing its power from the combination of Blunt’s ideas, fluid and often semi-literate musicality, and world-weary persona."
This morning we were sent a track we were informed was ‘King James’, released in typical low-key Dean Blunt style on Soundcloud. It seems that the track is actually called ‘Three’ and, as informed by Russian website Афиша – via Tinymixtapes – it is taken from a new 10-track Dean Blunt album titled Stone Island. The album – consisting of more peculiar and moving, Redeemer-esque orchestral pop – claimed to have been recently recorded in a Moscow hotel room and is available to stream and download. You can download the full album here, and listen to ‘King James’/’Three’ below.
Blunt is also heading out on a European tour this autumn, presumably to play selections from the record and more, calling via London’s 100 Club, Unsound Festival in Krakow and a string of other venues along the way (see below).
Dean Blunt’s autumn tour dates run as follows:
SEPTEMBER:
7th – Stavanger, Numusic Festival
11th – London, 100 Club
12th – Tallinn, Kino Soprus
20th – Milan, S/V/N Club @ Buka
OCTOBER
11th – Barcelona, CCCB
18th – Krakow, Unsound Festival
NOVEMBER
5th – Lisbon, Teatro Maria Matos
20th – Cologne, Gewoelbe
22nd – Berlin, Berghain Kantine
23rd – Copenhagen, Jazzhouse
24th – Hamburg, K6
25th – Amsterdam, Bimhuis
26th – Paris, Point Ephemere
29th – Bristol, Arnolfini
30th – Liverpool, Blade Factory
DECEMBER
1st – Glasgow, Arches
