After three albums across as many labels, performances around the world, art gallery shows, video art projects and various oblique paths all their own, the mysterious duo still performing as Hype Williams will release their best album to date not under the HW banner, but under their own names Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, on Kode 9’s respected and growing Hyperdub imprint. The album will come out the Tuesday before this show.

Entitled Black is Beautiful, it was recorded during a tremulous period for the two: Inga Copeland’s Arsenal girls tryouts, Dean's 'Waschbärgate' trial (he was implicated in being behind a one night robbing spree across 16 taxidermists based in London and the South East, allegedly only for racoons) and his subsequent conversion to Nation of Islam upon being acquitted.

Black is Beautiful is laced with their signature hazy glow and is full of crunched eurovision lullabies, kinetic drum machine jams, unsettling funk, smeared walls of synth, moments of unadulterated opiated bliss, mogadon rap, infinite coughs and insights into the odd sexual behaviour of crackers.

As Hype Williams live, the duo are one of the boldest new acts out there, having conquered stages across Europe last year including a slot at Unsound’s Krakow edition in October 2011, which featured some unique stage drama that so inspired the Unsound crew that the idea of not having them on the New York bill was simply unthinkable.