This is one of the most indescribably weird albums of the past few years. Dean Blunt has somehow managed to create something truly new here, something that so many have been striving towards, but few have succeeded at in executing to this degree. Outsider hip hop? This album took what cLOUDDEAD and the rest of the Anticon collective pioneered with their blend of ambient samples and aberrant emcees to the next level. Vaporwave? Despite the hypnagogic production of "Black Metal", the haphazard vocal presence manages to make this sound even more surreal and detached. Future Goth? The first half of this album sounds something like a tired person half-singing over a shoegaze record. The second half is congruous with something off of Hyperdub or Tri Angle Records in its ghetto-gothic-British-streets-at-night vibe. This is a grow-er, not a show-er.
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