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Black Metal is an album by British musician Dean Blunt, released by Rough Trade Records on 3 November 2014. The album features vocals from Blunt and frequent collaborator Joanne Robertson. Musically, the album is structured more conventionally than Blunt's previous work, but is diverse in instrumentation and genre.




Background and composition


Black Metal includes elements of post-punk, post-rock, indie pop, folk, Americana, dub, ambient, grime, and dancehall. Critics have also noted the prose of Blunt's lyrics as being similar to present day hip hop lyrics, which often reflect dark subjects like infidelity and alcoholism.
Blunt has stated that the album was inspired by what he saw as a personal artistic liberation away from the appropriation of "existing old white images" toward "something that is undefined and is new".
In June 2021, Blunt released a sequel album, Black Metal 2.




Critical reception



Black Metal currently has a score of 79 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Critics praised Blunt's emotional range and directness on the album. In a review for The Observer, Killian Fox wrote that Blunt had created "some of the most achingly beautiful music recorded this year." Writing for Pitchfork, Colin Joyce called the album "disjointed" but praised the album for its sound and for Blunt's clearer, more pop-oriented style compared to his previous work. However, AllMusic's Andy Kellman criticised the album for being "quantity-over-quality" and for what Kellman saw as a derivative sound. Michael Hann characterised the album in The Guardian as a needlessly difficult listen that was sometimes repetitive, but nonetheless praised it as "extraordinary."




= Accolades

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Black Metal placed first on Tiny Mix Tapes' and Crack Magazine's lists of best albums from 2014. The latter also named it the best album of the 2010s.




Track listing



Notes

All tracks are stylized in all caps. For example, "Lush" is stylized as "LUSH".
Sample credits

^[a] "Lush" contains a sample of "For You", written by Stephens and performed by Big Star.
^[b] "100" contains a sample of "Over My Shoulder", written by McRobbie and performed by The Pastels.




References

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