Bleep

After 2012’s “joint-solo” outing with Hype Williams’ partner Inga Copeland, bass music mystery man Dean Blunt reveals ‘The Redeemer’: a song-driven, acoustic effort after the scattershot approach of his last LP. ‘Demon’ crosses pounding drums with choral voices and sighed, quasi-Bowie vocals, while ‘Papi’ takes a smooth keyboard melody and adds piano scales, woodwind and a delicious lazy soul vibe. Could this be the sound of Blunt finally putting on slippers?