The Predatory Wasp
There’s surprisingly little online about Joanne Robertson and Dean Blunt’s new collaborative EP Backstage Ravers, save for a glowing RA review and an enthusiastic Reddit thread. Perhaps that’s expected from the famously publicity shy artists, but they really are making us work for it. Robertson takes the lead here with Blunt lurking in the distant background. Hazy, occasionally discordant and in a questionable stage of completion, the eight songs here are nevertheless completely beguiling.
You have three days left to download Dean Blunt’s new EP via the Wetransfer link he made available out over the weekend. Clocking in at less than eight minutes, Give me a moment features five new original tracks, including PRESSED. His ability to create and rapidly exit a vibe remains unparalleled.
BLACK METAL 2 arrived pretty much out of nowhere today, and I’m already completely obsessed. The follow up to 2014’s BLACK METAL, it immediately transports you back into that heady, dreamlike world, pulling you into its thick, fuggy atmosphere and sounding like nothing else out there. People will write far longer, vastly more eloquent reviews of this over the coming days and weeks: all I can say for now is that it’s in a class of its own and deserves all the plaudits its inevitably going to get.
The Predatory Wasp 