Death Grips

Or Mu, whichever it is. That Afro Finger & Gel album.

― Evan, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

maybe it's because I've been in a Depeche Mode rabbit hole for the past week but I tried to listen to Exmilitary and got really sick of it three songs in

I'll try again later when I'm not all synthpopped to death

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Is there really a lyric in "Hacker" that goes You're an intern/I'M WIKILEAKS? haha

yeah lol

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

"we got all the coconuts bitch!"

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

"soon your crew will be serving sandwiches named after me"

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

no samples and all, but the "guitar" noise in i've seen footage sounds so much like kill me tomorrow

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

so this is out huh?

and yeah the setup of beware is so so good

― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:38 PM (3 hours ago)

whole thing streaming on soundcloud iirc

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

on spotify today

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

i preferred this album to the mixtape, which i could barely get through - bits of it reminded me of gang gang dance in a sideways spirit - but oh god his voice is just so one-note and unlistenable

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think you mean awesome and really awesome

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

i can't find it on soundcloud?

― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://soundcloud.com/deathgrips/sets/the-money-store/

mu is a really weird point of comparison, but i guess compressed vox+choppy samples

― ogmor, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

have to be honest this is not grabbing me :/

― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

just like to imagine the dude shouts like that in all his conversations YES I WANT SOME CEREAL PLEASE AND ALSO MILK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT BREAKFAST YEEEEEEEAH

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

GOTTA HAVE MY BOWL GOTTA HAVE CEREAL

FAST LANES. CHANGING LANES.

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

NO TALKING ABOUT PLATO ON TOUR

what i think i mb liked most about ex-military was the sense of having been awake for 50 hrs, or left alone in an abandoned house til you'd gone feral; that semi-conscious, warm, listless, lizard-brain, head-nodding catharsis.

this album feels way more mannered, funnier, but still w/ that aggression: bludgeoning samples, very satisfyingly put together, still a big sense of relief. death grips are a v therapeutic band

― ogmor, Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

this is a grower by listen four

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

DEATH GRIPS ADD DATES TO SUMMER TOUR

Death Grips Tour Dates:

5/5 Sacramento Electronic Music Festival - Sacramento, CA

5/18 The Academy - Dublin, Ireland

5/19 Stag & Dagger - Glasgow, UK

5/20 The Roadhouse - Manchester, UK

5/21 The Bodega - Nottingham, UK

5/22 Norwich Arts Center - Norfolk, UK

5/23 Green Store Door - Brighton, UK

5/25 All Tomorrow's Parties - London, UK

5/26 Grande Halle de La Villette - Paris, France

5/27 Worm - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

5/28 OT301 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

5/29 Merleyn - Nijmegen, The Netherlands

6/1 Primavera Sound Festival - Barcelona, Spain

6/2 Field Day Festival - Barcelona, Spain

6/4 Magasin - Brussels, Belgium

6/5 Charlatan - Gent, Belgium

6/6 Mtc - Cologne, Germany

6/7 Gretchen - Berlin, Germany

6/8 Hafenklang - Hamburg, Germany

6/9 Primavera Sound Porto - Porto, Portugal
6/12 The Barbery - Philadelphia, PA

6/13 Music Hall of Williamsburg - New York, NY

6/14 TT The Bear's - Boston, MA

6/15 Club Lambri - Montreal, QC

6/16 Wrong Bar - Toronto, ON

6/18 Magic Stick - Detroit, MI

6/19 The Pyramid Scheme - Grand Rapids, MI

6/20 Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL

6/21 Triple Rock - Minneapolis, MN

6/22 The Bottleneck - Lawrence, KS

6/23 Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO

6/26 Fortune Sound Club - Vancouver, BC

6/27 The Crocodile - Seattle, WA

6/28 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR

6/30 Slim's - San Francisco, CA

7/1 Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

0_o

― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 26 April 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

shit yeah, playing seattle and pdx

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's a really weird PDX venue for him to be playing

― Clay, Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

ha yeah, i didn't even notice the venue. i'll more likely see them in seattle. and the crocodile isn't ideal, really, but it'll do.

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Slims sucks too, tbh, though there are suckier SF venues

― sarahell, Thursday, 26 April 2012 05:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not many though.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 26 April 2012 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

they're gonna be on the new Bug album. can't wait for that.

― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, i heard about that and am VERY interested in hearing

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol, almost as surprising as the fact that they're gonna be on their own album

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.spin.com/reviews/death-grips-money-store-epic

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lex did a great review of their album on the Guardian, definitely going to buy it after reading this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/26/death-grips-money-store-review?newsfeed=true

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, that makes me wanna listen to it again

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

great review, c

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

:)

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

A good point/counterpoint:

― bendy, Friday, 27 April 2012 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

heavy repeat favorites at the moment in order of preference:

Hustle Bones
The Fever
I've Seen Footage
Get Got
Double Helix
Punk Weight

I don't think Lost Boys and Blackjack are gonna click for me unfortunately but the rest of the album has potential

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 April 2012 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

and not to pick a fight with you whiney but the emphasis on this being rap is weird to me as hip hop is really not how i'm identifying this internally
just feels like fleet footed hardcore to me

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 April 2012 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

HUSTLE BONES COMING OUT MY
HUSTLE BONES COMING OUT MY MOUUUUUUTH

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 April 2012 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 April 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

somebody is gonna have to convince me that there's not a push it sample in I'VE SEEN FOOTAGE

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 April 2012 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

the thought of l.a. reid air-drumming to death grips is p amazing

― ogmor, Friday, 27 April 2012 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

i care about lex's opinion about death grips about as much as i care about tuomas' opinion about cabin in the woods

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

mb view it as a tiny bit of karmic payback for clueless rnb reviews by indie critics filled w/ unenlightening reference points that only underline their inability to hear it properly

― ogmor, Friday, 27 April 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

okay the first 20 seconds of this are already more interesting than what I hear od Exmilitary yesterday

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

i agree with whiney that the anarchic energy is tamed more than just somewhat but there's a lotta good good in here

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

lex getting assigned the death grips album is my favorite lex assignment since lex got assigned the klaxons debut

― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 April 2012 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's kind of funny seeing someone who champions Cassie use "one-note" in a pejorative manner

this is kind of hitting me like Shabazz Palaces on PCP, which is a concept that gets better and better the more I think about it

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

and not to pick a fight with you whiney but the emphasis on this being rap is weird to me as hip hop is really not how i'm identifying this internally
just feels like fleet footed hardcore to me

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu)

rap is a big part of the dna though. it's a hybrid, not a this or that.

shabazz palaces comparison otm

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

"emphasis"

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeh okey

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

lex's review seems pretty positive to me, y'all are being a little "omg you brought down the avengers' rotten tomatoes score!!" at him

― some dude, Friday, 27 April 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't understand how can you identify this as "not hip-hop"? I think referencing MC 900 Ft Jesus as a very canny move as this really does slot into that type of weirdo industrial-goth-hop vein that nu-metal/hip-hop hybrids did their damnedest to destroy.

Then again, I've called a whole bunch of bizarre things hip-hop (like "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors") so maybe that's just one of my default filters.

xp: It is pretty positive for a 2/5 review, I'll give you that.

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 27 April 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink