Death Grips

so far this is my favorite album of the year

absolutely! really excited to see them on thursday in boston o wait they canceled their tour n/m fuck these guys

otm
both of the last two posts

Still no explanation or anything on that?

now I'm mad, EIII and I could have been Death Grips buddies

i don't see how it could be anything but a money thing; they're still doing the festivals right?

I thought everything got cancelled.

we'll always be death grip buddies *bump*

xp

I thought it was to work on their promised second 2012 album.

Death Grips
3 hours ago
we are dropping out to complete our next album NO LOVE. see you when it's done. (there are no longer any scheduled shows)

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Saturday, May 5, 2012 1:46 AM (1 month ago)

right, but i thought they were still doing ATP? or did that announcement come after? I may well be incorrect here.

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/ibymusa2012/news/1205080922.php

ok i'm wrong
still feel like this is money motivated

how u make money canceling shows?

the backlash to this stuff is kind of surprising, i guess confirms that people are used to and don't care about album delays, are way more pissed if you postpone shows they already bought tickets for/made plans around if there's not, like, some serious health issue or other inarguable explanation

it's funny that the album is called "No Love"

how u make money canceling shows?

like someone said upthread, canceling a club tour and then re-booking it in larger venues maybe?

rising acts move sold out shows into bigger venues all the time, without outright cancellations or this kind of fanfare. that would be p weird imo. although this whole thing does seem weird in general.

is it possible that they booked the tour under old management & then when they signed to interscope they decided not to have them go out? i'm not sure if my timeline is off there tho

and by interscope i mean whichever major they signed to, i forget which it is

epic i think.
moving to a bigger venue would mean they would be getting more cash if it were a door split. If it were a straight up booking fee, they might cancel the whole tour because that's the only way they could contractually get out of doing several small shows. dunno.

the backlash to this stuff is kind of surprising, i guess confirms that people are used to and don't care about album delays, are way more pissed if you postpone shows they already bought tickets for/made plans around if there's not, like, some serious health issue or other inarguable explanation

― some dude, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:39 AM (1 hour ago)

agree that music fans in general get irritated at show cancellations, but another dimension here is death grips are coming up through the underground where project delays are common and frequent, but shows commitments are code-of-honor type stuff. as somebody who books and play shows, I can say that bands who cancel without good cause are viewed as flaky pains in the ass or cavalier primadonnas unconcerned with making other ppl's lives difficult. and this was an entire tour! whiney made the point above, you'd think a guy like zach hill would know better.

if they'd produced some kind of sincere apologetic message or rationale it'd be different but it was like "btw no shows, suck it". frankly, I was psyched to pick up their album the week it dropped but the way they handled this left a bitter taste in my mouth. still haven't bought it, tho I prolly will at some point.

it's just hilarious cause like, you just dropped an album dude. nobody will mind if you don't drop another before January.

maybe they had conflicting label obligations - like maybe the label made them cancel?

Why wouldn't you just say that then?

because they work for the label?

working for the man, just like evrybody else

If our federal government can't stop leaks I seriously doubt LA Reid can.

New dates then. London in November and it's really not a big place. It doesn't seem the idea they were cancelling to re-book at hu-MON-gus arena is right. I guess?

new single is really good. is there some reason MIA hasn't tried to work with them? at least a couple of songs where they feat a vocalist who sounds conspicuously like her

http://www.adultswim.com/promos/201206_singles/index.html

given that Death Grips is already generating buzz on their own, I'm not sure why they'd split $$$ with M.I.A. when they can give ¢¢¢ to an M.I.A. clone

new track is OK, I'm guessing given the rest of the Adult Swim singles that it won't be on the album.

maybe they think MIA sucks

yeah, guess I was thinking the other way around. kinda like how Bjork goes after people to make her sound good

xpost to jordan, yeah maybe

what do they need MIA for?

feel that the image is more remarkable:

http://cdn02.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Adult-Swim-Singles-Program-2012-575x575.jpg

new track is OK, I'm guessing given the rest of the Adult Swim singles that it won't be on the album.
--Simon H.

I think they've already said its a money store leftover.

so, uh, they put the new album up for download on their site. which has already been linked at the top of the thread, but http://thirdworlds.net/main/ for easy reference.

lol at signing to major label and then spazzing out when the major label acts like a major label. true punks, these ones.

yyyyyyyep

how much did their major-label record sell anyway? i hesitate to even mention the name because it kinda seems to be a volatile one around these parts, but kreayshawn probably sold as many or more in her first week right?

that's probably a fair assessment

anyone going to post the album art then? it's... a bit much

helllllllooooooo

(album art is a dick btw)

8====deathgrips===D

haha what the hell is with these guys and their album art

pretty hard cover

thirteen little dick icons on my desktop

is there any way to get this album without flashing dick to everyone at work?

make your browser window really, really small?

cool, a dick on the cover, that's really gonna FUCK PEOPLE UP MAN WOAHHH!!!