Member of the enigmatic berlin-london dúo, called Hype Williams, consisting of Russian-born Inga Copeland and London's Deán Blunt, is not your typical band...
Member of the enigmatic berlin-london dúo, called Hype Williams, consisting of Russian-born Inga Copeland and London's Deán Blunt, is not your typical band.
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Dean Blunt has a reputation for lying outrageously to interviewers. When I first met him 18 months ago, during a tour with his experimental pop duo Hype Williams, he fed me various lines: that he only listened to Oasis – in fact, he met his bandmate Inga Copeland during their performance of Cast No Shadow at Knebworth – and that Hype Williams were now splitting because he was off to wrestling school and Inga to a motor-racing career. So when he insisted that we do this interview via Skype chat, I sensed major trolling ahead. But after announcing that he's speaking from Atlanta, which he says is like "a 112 album skit", he settles into a thoughtful, funny and impassioned discussion.
Blunt's music has also shifted into a more clear-headed phase. Where Hype Williams sounded like a lover's rock cassette dredged from a canal, his pair of albums this year, The Redeemer and Stone Island, are heavy on piano ballads and Brylcreemed crooning, albeit with their narrative compass held next to a magnet. The latter, self-released on a Russian website, is "me in a Russian hotel room with a short-haired angel rinsing out my hotel bill ordering champagne", while the former is about "black London love". He pauses before adding "it's not about it, itis it." The Redeemer is a brilliant album that takes an elliptical path through a relationship, where movingly honest songs declaring "you bring out the best in me" crash into samples of schoolkids counting down to zero and Big Ben chiming noisily. "What happened during that time is a blur," he says. "Living out thoughts rather than evaluating them, or rationalising them. I didn't choose what it was about; someone chose that for me."
Hype Williams are definitely no more, and his explanation of the separation is similarly mysterious. "I don't really see things as solo or not. Circumstances make certain things come to the front more. Circumstances out of my control, sometimes. The only work I do is to not be destructive as a result of these circumstances, and channel them into something else." So what were the circumstances? "Wish I remembered," he replies. "'It was all whirlwind, heat and flash'," he adds, quoting a line from Sonic Youth's Goo sleeve
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