Not that guy. This Hype Williams is the sneaky, lo-fi, dubbed (and weeded)-out, art world-ready electro/bedroom-based project of London’s D. Blunt (aka Roy Blunt aka Roy Nnawuchi) and Estonia’s Inga Copeland (aka Karen Glass?). Like a number of young artists, or people acting like young artists, they live between London and Berlin. Their second (and first widely released, not limited to 300 copies) full-length, The Real World-referencing Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Gettin’ Reel, made its way into the world as a disconnected series of YouTube clips. Their approach reminds me of a scruffier take on Salem pal Stalker, especially in “Untitled (Andrea Lopez),” or a sketchier, less elegant oOoOO (or CREEP or etc). It isn’t refined: I’m assuming people who hate Salem will hate Hype Williams, though not everyone who likes Salem will like Hype Williams. I like their dissembling approach, rumor mongering: Their press release mentions that Joss Stone financed the making of the record, that they’re “part of an 18 year relay project thought up by a lady named Denna Frances Glass. Their official statement about the album? “ritolin (sic) and rama lama 555 (sic).” Get a sense of the sound via “The Throning” and one of their various “Untitled” tracks. Listen with headphones.
Find Out…
01 “Rescue Dawn”
02 “Untitled (Andrea Lopez)”
03 “Blue Dream”
04 “The Throning”
05 “Untitled”
06 “Jesus To A Child”
07 “Jesus To A Child”
08 “Rescue Dawn 3″
09 “Jesus To A Child Reprise”
10 “Untitled”
Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Gettin’ Reel is out via De Stijl. To get a sense of those videos, here’s album opener “Rescue Dawn.”
“Blue Dream”:
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