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9.0
125469
9.0 |
Crack
The most consistent Dean Blunt record to date. Black Metal 2 is an intimate, engrossing, all-too-brief successor to an album that helped bat away accusations of arch-pranksterism. Black Metal shocked with its (seeming) sincerity; Black Metal 2 delights with it
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8.1
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8.1 |
Pitchfork
The sequel to 2014’s beloved Black Metal is a brief but thrilling project from the mercurial artist, featuring the most approachable music of his career.
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8.0
125433
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Overall, it’s a charming and concise release, compounding a sharply honed and long-gestating formula, sure to appeal to and beyond the core Dean Blunt fanbase
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8.0
125434
8.0 |
Exclaim
If BLACK METAL 2 is less Blunt-as-provocateur and more Blunt-as-storyteller, then both longtime fans and brand-new listeners owe him the opportunity to paint that morose picture in equal measure
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8.0
125435
8.0 |
PopMatters
Another confounding work of avant-indie weirdness
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
Seven years after the first instalment, Dean Blunt’s Black Metal sequel makes a gorgeous addition to the oeuvre of Hackney’s master art-pop prankster
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7.9
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7.9 |
Beats Per Minute
BM2 is what might be dubbed a ‘mood project’, the listener enrolled in dreamy tones, hypnotic textures, and intriguing obliquities more so than catchy melodies or choruses (though BM2 does in fact offer a sprinkling of conventional hooks)
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