Hype Williams: One Nation – review

Borrowing their name from the feted video director, Hype Williams could be – depending which rumours you believe – an "18-year relay project" conceived by a husband-and-wife pairing of motivational speakers, or even a side project of the singer Joss Stone, but only slightly more prosaically, it appears they're Roy Blunt (aka Roy Nnawuchi) and Inga Copeland, a duo from Hackney and Estonia, respectively. It's not simply their identity that the pair cloak so teasingly: the music they make is like a series of palimpsests, all woozy basslines, stuttering tempos and glacial washes of synths that feel like a hollowing out of several narrative strands in pop history. And while, for some, two spoken-word tracks – Untitled and Untitled (And Your Batty's So Round) – may bring to mind nothing so much as Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen), others may find it all strangely addictive.