Death Grips

"we got all the coconuts bitch!"

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

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

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

on spotify today

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

i think you mean awesome and really awesome

i can't find it on soundcloud?

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

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

have to be honest this is not grabbing me :/

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

GOTTA HAVE MY BOWL GOTTA HAVE CEREAL

FAST LANES. CHANGING LANES.

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

this is a grower by listen four

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

0_o

shit yeah, playing seattle and pdx

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

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.

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

Not many though.

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah, that makes me wanna listen to it again

great review, c

:)

A good point/counterpoint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mp7qJxDc2k

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

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

HUSTLE BONES COMING OUT MY
HUSTLE BONES COMING OUT MY MOUUUUUUTH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sticXkHxZC4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"emphasis"

yeh okey

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

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.

ok maybe not 'pretty positive' but it's far from a hatchet piece

xpost -- i didn't see the numerical score on the review, admittedly

it was either 2 stars or 3 stars and 3 stars seemed way too generous for an album that in all honesty i am never going to play again and frequently didn't actually enjoy in any way

my drake commission must be an all-time favourite

death grips need more promo photos