Blunt, Dean: Black Metal (Vinyl 2xLP)

Black Metal is Dean Blunt's first album for Rough Trade and it's got stone cold classic written all over it. Seemingly impossible to pin down, he takes a swerve once again and delivers his most beautiful piece of work yet. Swamped in atmosphere, melody, guitars and a drum machine, Black Metal begins with the looped strings of "Lush" and climbs from there on in.

It's got traces of Lee Hazelwood and even Scott Walker yet Mr Blunt still maintains his trademark brand of songwriting.