It’s not too hard these days to sketch a career out of being shadowy and embracing mystery and slipperiness – few have done it quite as well as Dean Blunt, though, whose two decades of music-making so far have been marked with sideways swerves, unannounced drops and rumour mills. He’s most likely behind The Crying Nudes, though, that’s for sure, and that voice is Danish singer Fine, whose 2024 album Rocky Top Ballads was a sleeper gem. DJ is The Crying Nudes’ second album, if you’d call its fifteen minutes of music that, though they do creep their way through nine drowsy, sleepy songs (one hidden, natch) in that time. The songs are simple, repetitive, loop-like, their guitar, keys and drums landing them close to the likes of Mazzy Star; Fine’s voice isn’t too far from Hope Sandoval either. But the difference lies in the brevity; their capacity to say a lot with a little means you never tire of this world of sound.