Guess I'm still not over that review.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
the same writer semi-panned the last Algiers as well. at last, I have a nemesis
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 14 September 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
I admit I thought this revive was going to be about their cover of "Tipsy" (really -- it's from the Save Stereogum compilation that came out last week, I think).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 September 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
Watching Clipping palling around on Twitter with Backxwash has been a joy recently. If you've not heard the Backxwash mini-album yet, btw, you absolutely have to: https://backxwash.bandcamp.com/album/god-has-nothing-to-do-with-this-leave-him-out-of-it
― imago, Monday, 14 September 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
oh my god https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19431-clipping-clppng/
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
It's possible that a capable MC might have balanced CLPPNG's deficiencies, but Diggs is far from capable. His backpacker-y flow sounds shopworn compared to the radically out-there beats, and his lyricism is lacking overall; hip-hop may be a massively self-referential genre, but the fact that nearly every track has at least one reference to an older Top 40 rap song seems like a grab for borrowed interest. Considering clipping.'s left-of-center style, he’s not particularly weird, and the persona that he projects—smart and misanthropic—is muddled at best. Overall, CLPPNG is chock full of ideas, and if its failure is due to overambitiousness, well, there are worse ways to fail.
what the actual fuck is this
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
Like I said, I'm still reeling. I suppose this means P4k reviews have retained the potential to offend me in 2020.
And you're quoting a different reviewer, to boot.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
every Pitchfork review of their stuff I've found is fucking stupid
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
yup, they've been dismissed by three different p4kers!
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 14 September 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
I mean compare that paragraph from the CLPPNG review to this, on "Story 2": https://www.rapanalysis.com/2016/10/clipping-rap-music-analysis/
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
that was in 2014 when every indie nerd was s'ing their own metaphorical d for not liking backpacker rap
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 September 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
Very glad we've moved past that tbh.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
you're also talking about ILX until Kendrick got huge tbf
― imago, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
We're not quite there yet tho. Melomane's time will come.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
pitchfork love to play the inauthenticity card when a rapper gets too clever for them
― imago, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
"why, Diggs is no G! he is naught but a theatre kid! what does he know of the Streets?"
― imago, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
The Streets sucks
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
'Geezers Need Excitement' is pretty damn funny to North American ears tho.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
btw, that "Tipsy" cover is here: https://soundcloud.com/user319642724/tipsy-j-kwon-cover
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
is there any connection btwn "Say the Name" and the new Candyman? if not there really should be
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 14 September 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
I don't know about new Candyman but I saw somewhere that Diggs had talked about loving the '90s movie.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
hell yes:
https://youtu.be/tq-hODfHPf0
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
METRONOMIC
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
Cam and China sound so fucking badass on this goddamn
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
um hell yes
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxEnNSgn_6/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 1 October 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
my 6yo just now, "What's the name of that song about visions of bodies being burned?"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
all these gangster rapsters or whatever they're called, putting Satan into the minds of our young
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
I'm back on The Deep EP and it boggles my mind that people are interpreting "y'all remember when you had to let 'em breathe" is a line about the Drexciyans showing the surface dwellers mercy in a song that ends with a giant tidal wave on an EP that ends with a song called "Drownt" using slang that is most commonly used to describe shooting someone, ie putting holes in them to ventilate them
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 12 October 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
hell yes
https://youtu.be/c0RYIIzsvFw
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
I really hate these lyric videos but every single so far has been incredible
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
They're just that good.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm levitating
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
Also I just found this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qd97k4Jr80
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Daveed just casually killing it there like it's nbd, jesus
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
That new song is unbelievable
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
DJP you are going to lose your fucking mind when you hear the whole album, holy crow
wall to wall bangers
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 16 October 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
whiney's clipping profile is really good
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/arts/music/clipping-daveed-diggs-chapter-319.html
― maura, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
also:
“There Existed an Addiction to Blood” closes with a cover of the composer Annea Lockwood’s “Piano Burning,” for which the group set a piano on fire in the desert, recording the crackles and pops on 17 microphones. Eight mics did not survive the session, including an Audio-Technica 825 that Snipes had since college.
“We were listening to that channel, and it was just crackling,” Hutson said. “We were like, ‘Oh my God, look at it, it’s on fire.’”
― maura, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
bravo, Whiney
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
Thanks, man!
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 19 October 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
Good piece, yeah.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 October 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
good read brah
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 19 October 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
This album is relentless!
― imago, Friday, 23 October 2020 07:09 (three years ago) link
Yes, I'm absolutely loving this so far. Sounds amazing on good speakers.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 23 October 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
Looking Like Meat - it could be autechre on production...
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 23 October 2020 07:57 (three years ago) link
okay the intro alone is terrifying
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 23 October 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
I hate to say it, but I found myself a bit bored with this one, barring the highlights. The contemporary classical namedrops are pure pap as far as I’m concerned but I wish they’d look beyond minimalism (broadly speaking) because there’s not always enough going on in the music to keep me fully engaged. This was not an issue on their previous LP, including on the piano-burning closer. I probably need to spend more time with the whole thing.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
ha, I think I prefer this one just because there are More Bangers
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 23 October 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
Daveed Diggs is one of the most talented emcees I've ever encountered
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 23 October 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link