Clipping - Midcity (noise rap)

METRONOMIC

Cam and China sound so fucking badass on this goddamn

um hell yes

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxEnNSgn_6/

my 6yo just now, "What's the name of that song about visions of bodies being burned?"

all these gangster rapsters or whatever they're called, putting Satan into the minds of our young

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

hell yes

https://youtu.be/c0RYIIzsvFw

I really hate these lyric videos but every single so far has been incredible

They're just that good.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm levitating

Also I just found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qd97k4Jr80

Daveed just casually killing it there like it's nbd, jesus

That new song is unbelievable

DJP you are going to lose your fucking mind when you hear the whole album, holy crow

wall to wall bangers

whiney's clipping profile is really good

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/arts/music/clipping-daveed-diggs-chapter-319.html

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.’”

bravo, Whiney

Thanks, man!

Good piece, yeah.

good read brah

This album is relentless!

Yes, I'm absolutely loving this so far. Sounds amazing on good speakers.

Looking Like Meat - it could be autechre on production...

okay the intro alone is terrifying

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.

ha, I think I prefer this one just because there are More Bangers

Daveed Diggs is one of the most talented emcees I've ever encountered

The bangers on this one top the bangers on TEAATB, no doubt about it.

That said I wouldn't mind them mixing up the sonic palette a little more on the next one (though yes I know these came out of the same sessions as TEAATB)

They already released an all-time masterpiece in 2016; I'm pretty content for them to make simply great albums, which they're doing imo

I'm lukewarm on "Say The Name," but the rest of this album has so far been one "holy shit" moment after another for me.

6.0 from the irrelevant Conde Nast webzine!

And as ever, the criticism is "too academic, not gangsta enough". Pitchfork you're a fucking embarrassment

It's 0.3 better than the Menswear retrospective! lol

Though Diggs is an animated performer, he isn’t a strong orator

Though Diggs is an animated performer, he isn’t a strong orator

Though Diggs is an animated performer, he isn’t a strong orator

Though Diggs is an animated performer, he isn’t a strong orator

There is a lot wrong in that review, this line is the most egregious.

well in this album's context "Lend me your ears" would have a literal meaning

by contrast occasional pfork contributor and wonderful songwriter in his own right Fred Thomas unsurprisingly nails their appeal in his AMG review - "the midway point between Wolf Eyes and Three 6 Mafia"

https://www.allmusic.com/album/visions-of-bodies-being-burned-mw0003420014

Hey, 6.0 is the highest they've ever rated a Clipping album!

my references have been more blanck mass/disposable heroes of hiphoprisy/gravediggaz
which is to say i'm liking it a lot

idk, it reminds me of when I dragged my friend to see Hausu at an ATP and he was like "that's not a horror" because it's not scary, but it's one of my favorites because I love the filmmaking and the humor and weirdness. I don't watch horror movies to be scared!

yeah, that makes sense.
am i wrong in thinking the critical issues of "authenticity" that i keep seeing from other reviewers (not gangsta enough, too clear of a flow, too dramatic in presentation, too gonzo) run perilously close to "not black enough"?

no

that is exactly what it is

I think backpack/experimental hip hop is to today's generation of critics what prog-rock was to critics of the past

until clipping goes out on halloween and robs children of their candy bags then punches the sidewalk frankly i'm not convinced

xpost idk about that since guys like Earl Sweatshirt are basically making Madlib albums now.

More along the lines of “these guys are writing song cycles about wizards and flying saucers!”

again, idk, because Rolling Stone just said Kid Cudi made an album better than the Anthology of American Folk Music

The walls between backpack and mainstream cracked a long time ago. El-P was about to play the Coachella mainstage before Covid