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
The bangers on this one top the bangers on TEAATB, no doubt about it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
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)
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 23 October 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Friday, 23 October 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
6.0 from the irrelevant Conde Nast webzine!
― imago, Monday, 26 October 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
And as ever, the criticism is "too academic, not gangsta enough". Pitchfork you're a fucking embarrassment
― imago, Monday, 26 October 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
It's 0.3 better than the Menswear retrospective! lol
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 26 October 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 October 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
well in this album's context "Lend me your ears" would have a literal meaning
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 26 October 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
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
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Monday, 26 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
Hey, 6.0 is the highest they've ever rated a Clipping album!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 26 October 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
my references have been more blanck mass/disposable heroes of hiphoprisy/gravediggazwhich is to say i'm liking it a lot
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
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!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 26 October 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
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"?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
no
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
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
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
until clipping goes out on halloween and robs children of their candy bags then punches the sidewalk frankly i'm not convinced
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
xpost idk about that since guys like Earl Sweatshirt are basically making Madlib albums now.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 26 October 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
More along the lines of “these guys are writing song cycles about wizards and flying saucers!”
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
again, idk, because Rolling Stone just said Kid Cudi made an album better than the Anthology of American Folk Music
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 26 October 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
The walls between backpack and mainstream cracked a long time ago. El-P was about to play the Coachella mainstage before Covid
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 26 October 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
they're fine with it as long as there's an autobiographical hook they can grok, eg the anime-themed Open Mike Eagle record they just praised (which tbc is actually quite good)
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
or to put it another way, I don't think anyone is listening to clipping. principally for the lyrics (which is not to say they're bad), but instead for the sonics, mood and for Diggs' remarkable dexterity, and the 'fork seems uncomfortable with that for...some reason
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
just gonna mention here that the Homeboy Sandman album is very good
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 October 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link