Death Grips

http://thirdworlds.net/img/go4it.gif
Matt pointed me at it and I downloaded it:
http://thirdworlds.net/
and me and the gal like it a lot! Might be a passing fancy but curious what ilxhivemind thinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaE8cMt_8iU
lyrics are stone cold stupid but the energy is manic, the production is lo-fi punk shit and the ideas are omnivorously informed and twitching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBO5PbpDPng
dash of aphex, little horrorcore, some industrial, some disco... aesthetically it's all over the place and scratches an itch i was not aware i wanted scratched?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTEscgVDnAU

spent the past hour listening to this in repertory with shangaan electro and they have a lot in common

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I8wGAsVk_I
very jux-y obvs

Just me?

I downloaded it and haven't listened yet. Give it a minute dude!

me too! :)

honestly, i will never get tired of samples of charles manson interviews

Lol i m impatient.
This was great to balance out miles on the ride into work today.
I'm hearing some machines of loving grace here, of all things!

My friend and I watched this from forks' inexplicable thread last night and she tried to download the mixtape but it made her browser crash when she used the internet at the same time. She said, "everyone's talking about this on facebook," and I said, " 'everybody'? How can it be everybody? This video only has 21,000 views and it's his most-viewed video," and she said, "okay, not EVERYBODY. Like two or maybe three people posted the video, "and I said, "still, that's pretty impressive when you consider the ratio of 21,000 to the population of the unites states. This is probably gonna get big. Like, indie big, maybe," and she said, "Yeah, maybe."

Kinda wish i could post an edited version of that post as a board description

love this shit. thanks forks.
yeah, mostly about the energy, like he just can't shout loud enough or bang hard enough.
some tasty musical action too. guilotine is a jam. not one sound more than it needs. works those bleeps just perfect.
also digging culture shock, like the flipside to lilb's age of information.

dig the whole staticky, fucked up low res visuals too

love the link wray sample on spread eagle cross the block

hell yeah, forks. downloaded this when i noticed it in gun sounds thread last night. think this is like the third thread it's come up in in like 24 hours, small pond virality.

love the link wray sample on spread eagle cross the block

lol @ klinik's castaways sample

also "rise above"

and "i want it i need it" str8 ripping the "interstellar overdrive" riff

Black flag show up on here too... Some creative sampling!
Love the part at the end of guillotine where the electronic burbling swells up and lifts the song to the next level.

Really enjoying this thanks.

love the death grips production, a lot of the same post-dub, post-hardcore touches as on zach hill records

haha and I was wondering why I liked it!

i like this so far

yeah i'm in pro death grips camp

streaming at the FMA

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Death_Grips/Ex_Military

i cant make it 45 seconds through one of these songs.

maybe it's not for you

def not for me

the fact that this guy seems fucking crazy and angry and yet has his seatbelt on (safety first) is swag as fuck. IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES GUILOTIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNEEEEE­EEEEEE
MrAria44 1 week ago 63

i cant make it 45 seconds through one of these songs.

― gr8080, Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:55 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this

although it's a lot more punk rock + a bunch of other things, i definitely get a shabazz palaces vibe at times (mostly in the lyrics + flow, like on "culture shock" for ex).

anyone know if the drums on 'thru the walls' are sampled from something?

haha

really loving this!

sorry to laugh, just that ZH is kind of non-human and sampleable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3bIKc8479E

oh nice, didn't know he was involved. jesus.

damn son

also, is it just me or does dude sound like an aggro slick rick at times?

I think he sounds like rza, especially on Spread Eagle Across the Block.

yeah that too. some of the vowels definitely have this british thing though.

Ok I'm 10 seconds into this and lmfao that this starts with a Janes Addiction sample

http://www.deathgrips.net/

the only person on my FB friends list that has posted this has been Zach Hill.

ok, i'm three songs into this. this is def up whiney alley.

the fact that this guy seems fucking crazy and angry and yet has his seatbelt on (safety first) is swag as fuck. IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES GUILOTIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNEEEEE­EEEEEE
MrAria44 1 week ago 63

this is otm

has anyone brought up atari teenage riot yet? cuz i'm getting a whiff of that

morelike RIYL: Techno Animal, Kill The Vultures, k-the-i???, etc.

but yeah

the gif in the op is perfect visual accompaniment to this music

ha totally

atari teenage riot ... Techno Animal, Kill The Vultures, k-the-i

finding death grope a lot more enjoyable & fun than any of those precedents. like it sounds like it ought to feel oppressively angry and "harsh", but it doesn't. good times album imo.

and yeah, OP gif couldn't be more perfect

@DeathGripz
Death Grips
this beat like you about to throw yourself down the staircase but then you smell the blunt and now you are the staircase #spiral

like it sounds like it ought to feel oppressively angry and "harsh", but it doesn't. good times album imo.

yeah this is the crazy part to me. i thought it would get grating, but like i'm sitting here vibing with the windows open on a summer evening

Its weirdly positive right? And the diversity of approach from song to song means it never bogs down.
Interesting that this is garnering straight up yes or NO responses.

Can anyone id the "it goes it goes it goes igoes" sample that plays prior to guillotine on the tape that appears to have inspired it?
We gonna rockdown to whiney alleynue
And then we take it higher

although it's a lot more punk rock + a bunch of other things, i definitely get a shabazz palaces vibe at times (mostly in the lyrics + flow, like on "culture shock" for ex).

― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:23 PM Bookmark

Yeah, it's definitely in this SP/Spaceghostpurrp/Blunt Fang nexus of sonically abrasive underground rap, but way more aggro vocally than any of those. Anyone know where this guy is from?

sacramento presumably

That really explains everything.

nice site geebs

i like those g-series ones, tasty

lets all like this instead of odd future

^^^^was waiting for that post

lol @ chaki sending me youtubes of this dude weeks before goons were up on him ^__^

Give honour and regard unto Chaki!

haha

keep on thinking of the dan savage definition of death grips when I see this thread

Skot just posted "guillotine" on Facebook and damn is that track great. Can't wait to hear the rest.

mixtape is free of charge!

downloaded and loading up the player right now.

this gets warmer on multiple listens; great to come home at midnight on the PATH train to

This record is the best.

tuneyards/deathgrips assonance tour in 2012 plz

y'all should listen to blackie: http://blackieallcapswithspaces.bandcamp.com/album/true-spirit-and-not-giving-a-fuck

new vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl3XWUhUOM

SHIT IS MINE
IT'S ALL MINE
ALL THE TIME
SHIT IS MINE
SHIT IS MIIIIIIIIIINE

SPREADEAGLECROSSTHEBLOCKSPREADEAGLECROSSTHEBLOCKCCCC CCCKCCKCSPREADEAGEL CRORSSPREADEASGLECROSSTHEBLOCCRPEAD

in a perfect world, you and me could jump around and scream these lyrics at each other all day instead of going to work.

agreed

these guys are pretty good!

y'all should listen to blackie: http://blackieallcapswithspaces.bandcamp.com/album/true-spirit-and-not-giving-a-fuck

y'all should listen to blackie: http://blackieallcapswithspaces.bandcamp.com/album/true-spirit-and-not-giving-a-fuck

y'all should listen to blackie: http://blackieallcapswithspaces.bandcamp.com/album/true-spirit-and-not-giving-a-fuck

stream isn't working :(

hmmm. then try http://blackieallcapswithspaces.bandcamp.com/album/spred-luv-lp

first show 6/15 @ low end theory

west coast, i guess?

LA

forks was right. LA is located near the west coast actually.

this is amazing

I have a feeling this stuff live is the best thing ever

really would like to see him live

totes

now this, I can understand why people like

The Bowie sample on "Culture Shock" is used really damn well.

I LIKE THIS A LOT

lol @ the "West End Girls" sample

maria was drinking wine and blasting this all night last night. i'm worried...

My wife came home from the gym a few minutes ago while I was blasting this and said "one of these days you need to let go of whatever anger you've got building up that makes you like this."

¯\(°_o)/¯

sounds like somebody needs to be told that IT AIN'T NO FUN IF THE ALIENS CAN'T GET NONE

you should have said CULTURE SHOCK FUCK YOSELF FUCK YOSELF

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH
WHATISITWHEREISIT HOW WILL IT AFFECT ME
FUCK THAT SHIT I NEED THAT SHIT BOUND TO BE THE DEATH OF ME
FUCK BUYING IT I'M TAKING IT AND SHARING IT WITH NOBODY

I've listened to "Guillotine" and "I Want It I Need It" far too often recently

whenever I listen to guillotine I have to do the arm movements

YUH

this does go well w/ shabazz palaces. I think a lot of ppl I know will be into it

whenever I listen to guillotine I have to do the arm movements

― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, May 23, 2011 12:15 PM Bookmark

otm

FUCK WHERE YR FROM
FUCK WHERE YR GOIN
ITS ALL ABOUT WHERE YR AT

So this is incredible

So it is.

one of those cases where there really is a little something for everyone.

IT GOES
IT GOES
IT GOES
IT GOES

GUILLOTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNE

YUH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG71wkBZNbA

yesss. i love how zach hill has been using his right foot powers for good (ie hot beats).

oh fuck yes

holy hell that looks awesome!

dope

This album is in the playlist that has the all the noisy ambient/industrial/metal, "Brotherhood of the Bomb"-era Techno Animal, God, The Bug, Wolf Eyes, and some of the more violent sounding dubstep.

good times 4 real

spread eagle music vid didn't impress me the first time i saw it but now i realize that the visuals are rhythmically in sync with the track to a degree i've never really seen before, it's srsly impressive

YUH imo

heard "rumble" at an amusement park a couple weeks ago, <3 death grips but he kinda ruined that song for me now

In the video for 'Guillotine' we've noticed MC Ride is careful to wear his seatbelt, adding to the impression that the character he projects isn't someone you want to be sitting beside on a long flight. Almost like he's a good citizen, repressed, buttoned up, conscientious about the rules, but on the verge of going off the deep end. Was this intentional, an oversight, or just good in-car safety?

F: Yes, of course it's intentional. We obviously had the option and foresight to not use a seatbelt, but that misses the point. It is not real - the outside is static, the inside is static, and the seatbelt is fucking static. Everything is static, just eating away at the individual. The material world and many things within it are designed to keep us half-dead, and we're trained to think these things are keeping us safe. We reference the weaponry of fear and our music and vision isn't about being hard or tough, it's about being real and raw, and feeling our shit. We counter with energy, everything is energy.

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

rev that is a dope quote

CHOKE ON THESE NUTS TO THE VERY LAST
YUUUUUNGH

yo i am kind of feeling "Beware"

welcome to the party pal

UK shows coming at end of September, excited for the London one that we're doing.

wow! somebody please update here if anyone knows he's coming to NY/NJ please?

didn't he play some secret show in NYC recently? I dunno maybe somebody was messing w/ me

would be so pissed if i missed him

ok, so secret it was on brooklyn vegan, stop sleeping forks

Death Grips -- 2011 Tour Dates
Thu 7/21/11 Santos Party House New York, NY w/ Nguzunguzu
Sun 7/24/11 RockBeach at Aviator Sports Complex Brooklyn, NY w/ Bass Drum of Death

also pretty sure death grips is a they not a him

fuck me
i've been a bit busy with summerstage, really pissed i missed this. woulda been real into the nguzunguzu double header.

i think of the lead dude as Mr. Death Grips.

btw Guillotine and Full Moon is on spotify; i am putting it in everyone's inbox

everyone in the world or

is this still holding up for people? i dont really get the urge to listen to it anymmore.

yeah I listening to it just last weekend, classic stuff imo

"guillotine" will forever sound great booming from a car stereo, those bass rolls increasing pressure as the song progresses and the stuttering needle noise at the end never fail to satisfy

i have been listening to this almost every day all summer

but then i've also been listening to big black and '82-'85 swans every day, so it's just been that kinda summer

man I hope you feel better soon

maybe get some exercise or eat more leafy greens

well i mean to be honest e, i listen to "angry" shit when i'm in a good mood, too. and so.

they did a house show last weekend that apparently was totally killer, several of my jaded 30-something friends proclaimed it the best show they've seen all year, which i missed because i was sick.

picturing you kicking back happily w/ a tall glass of lemonade while "half life" blasts in the background

xp

i thought it would get grating, but like i'm sitting here vibing with the windows open on a summer evening

still feelin this.

@DeathGripz
Death Grips
this beat like you about to throw yourself down the staircase but then you smell the blunt and now you are the staircase #spiral

can't be said enough

they did a house show last weekend that apparently was totally killer, several of my jaded 30-something friends proclaimed it the best show they've seen all year, which i missed because i was sick.

yeah , it was really fun. Don't know about best I've seen, but definitely the hottest and sweatiest. Fire code probably took a beating too, an earthquake would have killed everyone in the room.

Absolutely loving this mixtape/record whatever. Easily my favorite thing in a long time.

Alex came to my house and played me this, but at the time I was totally exhausted. I will digest it further, tbh

they released all the ex military instrumentals

http://thirdworlds.net/blackgoogle.php

good lookin out ed

Also all the acapellas and sound fx.

Buy it on CASSETTE (also t-shirts):

http://hellomerch.com/sh/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=160

OK now those are nice t-shirts

I'm pretty into black DEATH CLASSIC (I don't like to wear white t-shirts)

yeah, if i didn't have a zillion tshirts i would

I have a CLASH t-shirt and a CHROME t-shirt and an OBLIVIANS t-shirt. Those are all of my music-related t-shirts

seeing them Friday! so stoked.

y'all: http://blackieallcapswithspaces.com/

I don't like it, sorry rev.

yeah, honestly didn't grab me either.

@DeathGripz
Death Grips
lost voice entirely recording .. postponing upcoming 3 shows w B L A C K I E (san diego, los angeles, san francisco) // apologies

Kinda glad cuz I wasn't gonna be able to make the SF show.

Death Grips
@DeathGripz

we're releasing two full length albums this year world-wide ..
first one drops in April ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpxZdL2hQVc

this is a rad video

woot

aaace

FUCK YES

Funny that Ned posted this b/c they remind me a bit of New Kingdom!

oh fuckin' hell YES

they were killer live fyi

this sounds great

Mark, I strongly suspect my liking for both acts (and Dalek, for that matter) is far from a coincidence.

It's official - I need to give these guys another look/listen

2 albums? i'm still getting my head around the first one. still this is grebt news.

were they super loud live? (I hope so, like dalek)

ALL of their videos are great

Like, I would watch them more than once

I CLOSE MY EYES AND SEIZE IT I CLENCH MY FISTS AND BEAT IT I LIGHT MY TORCH AND BURN IT I AM THE BEAST I WORSHIP

Playing ATP! With louis ck!

Annnnnnd they've gone major label:

As a follow up to their critically acclaimed debut Ex Military, Death Grips will release two albums this year on Epic Records. The Money Store will be released April 24th and includes the new songs "Blackjack" and "Get Got".

PREMIERE: "GET GOT"

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrKSqb4H4A

LISTEN: http://soundcloud.com/deathgrips/death-grips-get-got/s-XC7HY

The Money Store will be available on vinyl exclusively April 21st as part of Record Store Day. The second album, No Love is set for release in the fall.

I like the new song.

huh, i'm surprised that anyone would think they could unit shift on the major label level?

holy shit that song rules!

@DeathGripz
Death Grips
this beat like you about to throw yourself down the staircase but then you smell the blunt and now you are the staircase #spiral

otm

dang

DeathgripsVEVO a little disconcerting though

wow, that's great. track reminds me a little of fuck buttons for some reason. a lot less harsh than last time out.

the best videos.

Vocals relatively errrr, subdued for DG, eh?

i hear the fuck buttons. nice to see they can flex.

DeathgripsVEVO a little disconcerting though

Damn, major label news is kinda o_O

New track and video are the fucking shit!

true, but mr. death grips in a chair is not the most charismatic video presence

I like him playing with the lights in front of the state capitol.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13312-lost-boys/

http://i.imgur.com/pDEMx.gif

oops wrong thread

HI DERE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W43aQxzjyeM

Nice!

I like th' newstyle!

damn this is great like really great

damn, they're good.

so .... chillwave limp bizkit?

Love this band so much.

http://thirdworlds.net/retrograde/

DEATH GRIPS TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA & EUROPE THIS SPRING

In support of their new album The Money Store, out April 24th on Epic Records, Death Grips will be touring North America this spring. The follow up to their critically acclaimed debut Ex Military, The Money Store is the first of two albums Death Grips will release via Epic this year. On April 13th, the band will release the video for "I've Seen Footage" off The Money Store.

4/12 The Glass House - Pomona, CA

4/13 Coachella - Indio, CA

4/20 Coachella - Indio, CA

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

definitely want to check these guys out. still kinda stunned that they are on a major label now.

mpls yessssssss

NY Tix on sale friday, I will be buying four methinks

YESSS they are nuts live, guys. GO.

Hailing from Sacramento, California, Death Grips was formed in late 2010 and consists of vocalist Stefan Burnett and production team Zach Hill & Andy Morin. The live setup consists of Burnett on vocals, Morin on keyboards and Hill on drums.

bollocks, Shabazz Palaces and Death Grips are BOTH playing on the 18th of May here and i'm not gonna be in town. At least i don't have to choose

pissed at four SC shows and nothing else on the west coast >:[

still kinda stunned that they are on a major label now.

the rap-rock revolution is BACK

Sacramento is not in Southern California

hokay, fine, californy then

same difference from where i sit

I'm bummed that they aren't playing in SF this go round.

Boston! This will def be bananas.

not going to coachella and gonna be out of town when he's playing pomona >:(

Maybe they'll tour the south in the winter...

Wait, did we miss a new video, it seems?

http://vimeo.com/39629429

Ha, read that too quickly from a friend, it's Death *Songs* -- but I so wouldn't have been surprised if they did a new one.

DEATH GRIPS IPS IPS ips ips ips

garbage

Agree Death Songs are pretty terrible if that video is any indication.

bought my boston ticket

Bought my NY tickets

mpls tix aren't ready

garbage

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J0rdan "Death Grips is garbage" S.'s Pazz n Jop ballot iirc

Death Grips 4eva

New album is sicccc of course, but total lack of samples means it's a little less destructive/corrosive as the first. Still some bangers on thurr

you going to this will.i.amsburg show whiney?

i think j0rdan might've been saying Death Songs are terrible, not Death Grips?

tempted to go up to Sacramento for that gig

LOVE IT

http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13421-ive-seen-footage/

Kills me I can't go to the non-Coachella show here! Argh, next time.

The album's loads of fun, but I confess that I gravitate much more towards the surprisingly poppy tunes ("Get Got," "I've Seen Footage," "Hacker")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZgZT4DGSY

i was just trolling -- i don't really like this band but it's really not my thing, that said "i seen footage" but anything that rips "push it" would be

can't remember when i last found a record as hard to make through as exmilitary

I find it very mood-dependent. Before reviewing the new one I listened to Exmilitary again while I was out in town in a foul mood and it felt like someone jamming a sharpened pencil into my ear. Then got stuck into the new one over the next couple of days and got into it straight away. Can't remember the last time my own reactions to a record have been so polarised from one day to the next.

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46127-video-death-grips-ive-seen-footage/

Another video.

seriously someone help me out with that main sample on The Fever (Aye Aye) - it's driving my nuts

seriously someone help me out with that main sample on The Fever (Aye Aye) - it's driving my nuts
--Jamie_ATP

No samples on the record according to Zach.

I've been listening to Exmilitary nonstop as of late. It was like my #50 record of the year or something but I'm realizing i still underrated it

told you dude

^

Holy FUCK this record. I love Exmilitary even though it can be wearying at times, wondered if I might not need another Death Grips, but holy FUCK this record. Maybe I'm just caffeine tweaking this AM, I dunno

This is the new record I am holy fucking about

Death Grips make me laugh, but in a good way. I am laughing with them, as in at the start of each track OMG this is REALLY how this song is going to go down?? "kudos" Death Grips!!!!

You're using THAT sample? really? for the whole song? are you sure? And that's the lyric??? That's REALLY the lyric? How do I feel about that?....Wow, that actually works. Clearly you know how this music thing works far better than I do.

agreed. this isn't grabbing me the way the last one was where it was all DEATH Y'ALL and i could ride a bit more with that, but it's very good.
Need to listen like 8 zillion more times over the next month before i talk too much about it i think

I think I like this more than Exmilitary, tbh. Though I do miss how "Beware" sets up that record. There's nothing that stalks me in quite the same way here. I love how that song is like, come over here, no no I'm not going to brutalize you, I just want to talk about some curious and deep ideas I've been having, oh wait actually I lied, BOOM

Is there really a lyric in "Hacker" that goes You're an intern/I'M WIKILEAKS? haha

Ride is developing a Mark E Smith level talent for non sequiturs that end up sequituring

so this is out huh?

and yeah the setup of beware is so so good

Reminds me of MU

Or Mu, whichever it is. That Afro Finger & Gel album.

maybe it's because I've been in a Depeche Mode rabbit hole for the past week but I tried to listen to Exmilitary and got really sick of it three songs in

I'll try again later when I'm not all synthpopped to death

Is there really a lyric in "Hacker" that goes You're an intern/I'M WIKILEAKS? haha

yeah lol

"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

just feels like fleet footed hardcore to me

whaaaat?

it's all thrashy punk to me but i'm not picky what you call it as long as you scream it hoarsely when you call it that

the rhythms and sonic "palette" are totally not thrashy punk. do you listen to much thrashy punk?

3 of 5 is the default "this is not bad for what it is, but it's definitely not for me, idgi" score. it's like abstaining from passing judgment. 2 of 5 is a slam.

"i'm not picky what you call it"

haha a SLAM ooh

like i said i didn't see the star rating when i said what i said though

thank you ma'am

lol if two stars is a SLAM what is one star, as per drake and klaxons?

star ratings and scores are kind of not the point anyway but it seems fair for "some elements i really like but overall i'm not feeling this"

one star is for me to poop on

the drums/beats are less pronounced on this than on ex-military ... at least on first listen.

5) holy shit!
4) good shit
3) shit, i dunno
2) a bit shit
1) shit sandwich

enlightening music discussion

this is why they pay me the big bucks to post on ILX

it's definitely a rap album for ppl that know what Hella is

ouch

what? i mean it's kind of rap for underground rock peeps. which is fine w/me.

death grips is for the children

Sorta damning it with faint praise there. Then again, I was talking about this album favorably the other day and I heard myself compare dude's delivery to HoP-era Everlast.

Like don't love this album, but it's doing that thing where it sorta keeps beckoning me back to listen to it, which usually means I'll end up liking it a lot more about six months from now.

does this sound like a louder faster harder version of tricky circa pre-millennium tension because that's what some of djp's reference points seem to suggest

i always preferred the jazzier side of mc 900 ft jesus to the harder stuff

does this sound like a louder faster harder version of tricky circa pre-millennium tension because that's what some of djp's reference points seem to suggest

Yeah actually that's not far off

Except Tricky even at his most fucked up felt like he was able to actually ride a beat at some point and I'm not sure Death Grips dude can at all.

I'm a few songs into this and this feels like the clunkiest end of Def Jux style undie rap filtered through a lame post-dubstep prism. Lame lame lame lame lame.

Lame.

go back to england

I'm now trying to listen to it as rock music and it doesn't work that way either.

do you like minor threat?

idk, looking at this from a undie hip hop pov and expecting flow to ride beats and such is probably the wrong way. feels like more of a noise/hardcore thing to me.

I like Minor Threat a bit, but there's an obvious physicality to Minor Threat that I don't hear here. I find it difficult to feel rock energy without rock instrumentation, especially drums, but this record doesn't feel like it really has rap energy either, it feels awkwardly slumped between two stools as it is.

Maybe I'd like the punishing mixtape that Lex hates a bit more...

yeah if there's one thing this album of frenetic Hella dude drumming and an MC screaming every line is missing is energy

agree that it doesn't work terribly well in the way i typically expect from rap, and it definitely isn't rock & roll, but i like the sounds and propulsion and wall-crashing energy. it works just fine for what it is, even if that thing isn't 100% clear.

I can think of a number of words to describe Death Grips, but slumping (awkwardly or otherwise) is not one that generally comes to my mind. I do think that Money Store somehow manages the trick of being simultaneously odder (in that it sounds far less like something I could imagine a major label being into) and also more conventional sounding (if a certain sort of Wire magazine-y IDM thing that they have going on can be called conventional) than Ex-Military (which I absolutely loved.) It's still quite good though and I'm excited to hear the next record which is what supposed to come out in a couple of months?!?

it's not even just "riding" the beat from a technical pov that dude can't do, it's like he just goes hammer & tongs at the mindless yelling without even hearing the music around him - his voice bears almost no relation to it at all

I don't think that's true at all! Especially on this one, with the way Ride's vocals are cut up and manipulated to suit each beat,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNwiVYaa7tA&feature=youtu.be

yeah if there's one thing this album of frenetic Hella dude drumming and an MC screaming every line is missing is energy

I obviously was interested enough to put it on again today in the cold light of sobriety. I'm about halfway through now and it's definitely better when the pace picks up - otherwise I'd say it has force rather than energy, in the way that a bulldozer does. I'm really not a fan of the mid-paced halfstep lope that's employed most of the time, it seems to go against the grain of the urgency in the vocals.

'Hustle Bones' is definitely the best so far.

not having much of an idea how to listen to a record doesn't nec make yr opinion worthless, but if you bring nothing to a record don't act like it's the record's fault if you come away empty-handed

truth grenade

TRUTH BOMBS COMING OUT MY MOUTH

john calvert's review on quietus is p interesting tho I don't think I agree w/ it all. also he doesn't mention ggd

I can't stop listening to "Hacker," it's like some sort of post-revolution touchdown fuck-yeah anthem after the anarchic barrage of the previous run of 4-5 tracks. Just wish it was twice as long.

also he doesn't mention ggd

to his credit

This is growing on me

Through I still like ex military better

Though I think it's funny ppl are ganging up on mattdc for not liking this....tbh this new one didn't grab me at first and I think the more subtle textures and lower key vibe (relatively speaking) do show up his shortcomings as an mc

There's two things that are pretty constant in hip hop that Death Grips lacks. One, even with freaky stuff like Odd Future or Ghetto Boys, there's an implied community, or at least a crew that's got your back. Two, there's a generally a steady BPM. Waka Floka sorta just yells too, but it's steady. Ex Military fits in on http://grindcorekaraoke.com/ 'cause a lot of that stuff is lone kids with sequencers building up a barrage that sounds like a full band changing tempo ever few seconds. Death Grips is like rapping without hip hop. Maybe it's NuMetal!

I didn't think I was being particularly ganged up on (I've been at least attempting to enjoy it and do enjoy bits of it). But the idea that it's difficult to find the right way to listen to it is just weird, as if it were fucking Schoenberg or something. I think it's pretty clear what's being attempted here, I'm just not sure it's very successful at it.

I dunno why ppl itt are doing stupid backflips about what to call this since there's like no short tradition of like Beatnigs, Death Comet Crew, Dalek, Techno Animal, Kill The Vultures, k-the-i???, Sensational, Hawd Gankstuh Rappuhs & half-the-Wordsound-roster dudes rapping or "rapping" over noise

xp - pretty sure the majority of schoenberg fans wldn't have much illuminating to offer either. there is no scale of difficulty which you can master and then unlock all music, there is no universal ear, or even a generalist one. 'clunky' & 'basic' are better deployed as compliments than thrown pejoratively.

more or less agree w/ upper mississippi about the record: enjoy the new things on the album & its still growing on me but not yet quite as fond of it as ex-mil & i'm looking fwd to the follow up more

feel like their live act/audience is revealing, it's like a hardcore show.

lol @ that list of artists in whineys post

i know it makes this sound like the least appealing thing ever

where's divine styler btw

i am filing this under "atari teenage riot" in my head

The Dälek guys should probably be hella (lol) pissed that this is getting as much attention as it is. Because as incredible as Death Grips is, those guys have been working harder and smarter at "quasi-industrial noise-rap" for a decade.

I don't even think they're getting a boost from the Hella connection (Hella was "hip" what, 10 years ago?). I think it's just the blogarchy "roll with the new" vibe. The last three Dälek records were just as good as anything Death Grips did and no one but Europeans and Isis fans are really riding for em in 2012

I have a lot more trouble getting through an entire Dalek album than a Death Grips one.

There is more to Zach Hill than just Hella, dude.

Yeah Pitchfork really was fucking with Team Sleep and his work with Les Claypool

Was it? I wouldn't know. The record he did with Mick Barr a few years back was pretty killer.

And youre talking to a HUGE zach hill fan! I'm just saying his role in other bands isn't what sold Death Grips!

Yeah I love that record!

Sold to whom?

http://www.frequencynews.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/lareidrapradar.jpg

what sold them was lots of static + mc ride lolling around like a a sleepwalking henry rollins & tweeting AYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYE

I dunno why ppl itt are doing stupid backflips about what to call this since there's like no short tradition of like Beatnigs, Death Comet Crew, Dalek, Techno Animal, Kill The Vultures, k-the-i???, Sensational, Hawd Gankstuh Rappuhs & half-the-Wordsound-roster dudes rapping or "rapping" over noise

yeah, but 'dudes rapping or "rapping" over noise' is a stupid thing to call it, so...

do love dalek & death comet crew. the former got a lot of hype & attention circa filthy tongues, but i have no idea why they fell off the map for so many people after that. definitely deserve more attention & credit than they generally get.

Death Grips is like rapping without hip hop. Maybe it's NuMetal!

i think it kind of is, or 90s-style rap metal. not such a bad thing.

I'm calling it "rap"

whiney's comment about how the freewheeling energy / no samples cleared vibe on ex-mil trumps this otm
not that this is bad at all and i am going to JUMP THE FUCK AROUND to i seen footage when they play it

Whiney you forgot New Kingdom

There's two things that are pretty constant in hip hop that Death Grips lacks. One, even with freaky stuff like Odd Future or Ghetto Boys, there's an implied community, or at least a crew that's got your back. Two, there's a generally a steady BPM. Waka Floka sorta just yells too, but it's steady. Ex Military fits in on http://grindcorekaraoke.com/ 'cause a lot of that stuff is lone kids with sequencers building up a barrage that sounds like a full band changing tempo ever few seconds. Death Grips is like rapping without hip hop. Maybe it's NuMetal!

why did no one call this out as being completely wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJ37xCi3KQ

I mean, these guys basically built their entire career on stutter-stop polyrhythmic flow and they weren't the only ones, and nothing flow-wise on the Death Grips album is further out there or less arhythmic than anything happening on the Shabazz Palaces releases, which I don't think anyone would argue against fitting into hip-hop because the dude doing it used to be in Digable Planets

Was hoping someone would call it out! Just throwing it out there. But I guess my point is that DG breaks two things- being twice out of step is what makes it seem iffy.

Those two things are kind of arbitrary? I mean, you can make an argument about hip-hop acts presenting themselves within their music as parts of larger posses and the sense of community that context provides, but it ignores a bunch of stuff that had at least a national profile which was undeniably tied to hip-hop (not only alt/underground stuff like Urban Dance Squad, Dream Warriors and MC 900 Foot Jesus, but mk I Digable Planets).

Also, the rhythm thing just is completely wrong and makes zero sense. I really don't know what the people comparing dude's flow to PMT-era Tricky are actually listening to because it doesn't appear to be either Death Grips release.

(which btw, I'm listening to the first one after a weekend of mainlining Siouxsie and the Banshees instead of Depeche Mode and it's making a lot more sense now, lol)

also: ctrl-f "pet shop boys" yields no hits

shame on all of you

i guess maybe every single element of death grips has been done before or better or in a more avant way, but none of that takes away from the amount that they just RULE IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE

^ yah, quit needing to explain it and just enjoy it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUGAxpI0Bc

i would erase everything that Death Grips has ever recorded to save the master tapes to "Ante Up"

oh well duh

i've been liking this more and more as i've listened more

thing it kinda reminds me of in a weird way is Von Sudenfed the Mark E Smith/Mouse on Mars thing

i really need to go out and get this in a store, just to support the idea of shit like this coming out on a major label

I will buy at the show and have every intention of taking a permanent sharpie to a white shirt and making a DEATH GRAPES tee to wear there

i'd been waiting for you to quietly mod the thread title to "Death Gripes"

man yesterday the first album just CLICKED for me

"Guillotine" is just.... YES

it goes

YUH

Just semi-committed to going to Hopscotch this year, before I noticed that they're playing the festival. YUH

definitely liking this more and more and it's good advice to stop worrying about how it compares the first one

front page of the guardian today, money money money

finally got a chance to listen through the new one, it's banging in a diff way than ex-military but their vibe def comes thru. plus I dig a cool sample as much as the next guy but it's nice to listen to them without getting "rumble" ruined for all time.

apparently they canceled all their tour dates? fuckers

waht

Quite a few people on their Facebook page are pissed.

that's a little weird

yeah, cancels include a local show they were supposed to play tomorrow night

http://thirdworlds.net/shows.php
?
am i missing something?

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)

they got a career now, yo

NO LOVE lol

dick move

no love is name of new alb btw

what the fuck, then don't book your tour you assholes

that said, tickets are still available for sale on ticketmaster so ahma wait and see

Event Cancellation Notice
The following event has been cancelled:

Death Grips
06/14/12 8:00 PM EDT
TT the Bear's

The tickets you purchased will be automatically refunded to the credit card used to make the purchase. Please allow up to five business days for the refund to post to your account.

yeah, they cancelled ny now too. this is that bullshit

kinda bummed cuz it woulda been cool to see them in a small room like TT, next time they come through they'll prolly be at some 1000 capacity venue

kinda wanna say fuck these guys. they've been talking up this two albums in 2012 thing long enough to know before they booked the tour that they weren't going to have enough time, should've just never booked it in the first place.

kinda bummed cuz it woulda been cool to see them in a small room like TT, next time they come through they'll prolly be at some 1000 capacity venue

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, May 7, 2012 12:05 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kinda bullshit if it was just a way to get out a small club tour and re-book it in bigger venues...

around the time that her big song was breaking adele cancelled a gig at First Avenue because of a "sore throat", which just happened to be re-booked 2 months later at the 20,000 capacity target center

it could very well be a result of a label dispute re: contractual touring obligations

do you know those guys or something?

lol. no.

fwiw, i thought the whole Adele sore throat thing was a legit medical thing, which is why she's been talking about retiring.

that's the problem when you book and then cancel a tour for weird reasons, ppl start distrusting yr motivations

xps

well, its one thing when its like Guns N Roses/Adele whatever when the venues need the artists more than the artists need the venue.

Like, dude has been touring 10 years and knows the importance of like making sure the dude from TT The Bear's isnt pissed at you, which is why i think there's probably something bigger going on

Not to be confused with bullshit Beirut/Wavves/xx crybaby tantrums of having never toured a day in your life and then bailing because it;'s actually hard work

Really curious what the actual story is here and bummed that I won't be seeing them (again).

nice tt the bears namecheck!

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/death-grips-x-alec-empire

Amusingly the Aquarius Records Money Store review namechecks that awful DHR rap album by Fever as well.

adele had throat surgery iirc - the grammys was her first public performance in months

and then she joined death grips, what a world

http://cl.ly/Gex6

heh.

death grips vs animal collective: who will suffer more backlash on their next album?

(ps after having seen death grips in a very small diy venue, I will say you probably want them to reschedule to a bigger place. unless you like punk kids bo)

Up the punx!

xp - i think there was also a lot of cheap bear spilled on the floor at that show: such an iconic perfume.

Cheap bears?

cheep bears make the cutest sounds.

Esp when spilled all over the floor

http://www.police.uci.edu/community/teddy_drive1/2003/photos/pile.JPG

get in the pit

knock the stuffing outta them

<i>Ride is developing a Mark E Smith level talent for non sequiturs that end up sequituring

― bendy, Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:14 PM</i>

i can see that. there's something about <i>the money store</i> that makes it sound like ride is embracing humour a bit more, but maybe i wan't getting it from <i>exmilitary</i> because it was sung in ALLCAPS.

the tricky/trip hop connection someone made upthread is an interesting one... something that never really occurred to me before. i can see geoff barrow really liking death grips.

whoops. i guess it shows i haven't been here in awhile. pretend those bits are in italics then.

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!!!

Anyone actually listen to this? Or is the cover too dick covered?

lol

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000031332913-w43jok-original.jpg

and yet a stray pube wiggles free

in honor of Death Grips I'm gon be writing album titles on my penis all day

gonna start with The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do, holla

I doubt anyone will be able to read such teensy writing though.

prose on my dick

^^^

I'll 1up whiney though and go with Fiona's second album title.

When the dong hits the conflicts he thinks like a dink

(I'm esp. liking "Hunger Games" so far; FWIW, James Blake ends up being in agreement w/ me)

i swear i made the "dick so big you can write a fiona apple album title on it" joke while i was out and about today
great minds, etc
firing this up right now; the "now playing" picture window definitely makes this a NSFW album

damn, i love dude screaming himself hoarse on "come up and get me"

(fiona joke closely followed by "inscribed on a grain of rice" bit)

yay WORLD OF DOGS

take out ya penis ya penis get taken out

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/3rdworlds.jpg

check them on facebook; it's hosted at like fourteen different places.
here's one: http://bayfiles.com/file/mGZP/OzFwSA/DeathGrips-NOLOVEDEEPWEB.zip

just observing that their site is down but thanks anyway

s'all good

ty forks

http://pitchfork.com/news/48044-death-grips-say-their-label-shut-down-their-website/

goddamn, NO LOVE

I support death grips, and I support this. it's like aural graffiti, where the guggenheim was all set to display your art "sometime next year", and then you just plaster it all over their wall

They would have a song called "Stockton"

you need to learn about the meaning of the BEAT DOWN
madness, chaos in the brain
let my blood flow, make my blood flow through you mang
you got no business questioning a thang...
YOU NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE MEANING OF A BEAT DOWN
http://penisland.org/

noz is full of incoherent disapproval on twitter, idg him

here's the album cover by the way (lol stereogum)
http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/10/Death-Grips-No-Love-Deep-Web-608x608.jpg

i could give a fuck who's legally in the right on this; just glad the album is in the wild

the whole manufactured controversy over this leaking is whatever

album is pretty good though. no love and world of dogs are highlights. that last song is great too

THAT ALBUM COVER

that is kind of a weird looking penis

http://www.poprockposters.com/var/albums/RECORD-LABELS/STIFF-RECORDS/STIFF-150.JPG?m=1313582155

Oops, sorry for hueg *arf*

noz is full of incoherent disapproval on twitter, idg him

― ogmor, Monday, October 1, 2012 4:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

makes sense to me:

andrew ‏@noz
the best way to maintain ownership of your music is to not sell it to a major label in the first place.

andrew ‏@noz
especially if you happen to make wholly inaccessible and unmarketable noise rap.

he's got a point.

i've always thought the signing was ridiculous, but getting all sourpuss scornful that an 'inaccessible noise rap' band think they are too cool to act professionally just shows up a weird set of priorities/values

not feeling this as much as Money Store. Plus I think a punk band signing to a major label and then bitching about it is retarded.

not really... it's a pretty sensible statement xp

i guess you find more comfort in the world-weary dad tone than i do

not really, but i don't see what's wrong in pointing out the reality of death grips situation

i don't see anything wrong with trying to fuck with a major label by tricking them into signing your unmarketable noise-rap but don't get all pissy when they don't want to release two albums of it in one year ffs unless this was all some extended performance art thing in which case good show boys

^^^ otm

In fact I think tricking a major label into signing yr unmarketable noise-rap is pretty great and this new album is pretty great so I'm fine with everything that has happened.

xp jordan
except that is no more 'the reality' than label signs a band it doesn't know how to market or handle... we don't even know what happened w/ the site yet. as it stands it's a dick joke & some vitriol, chiding the band "oh if only they'd handled their industry responsibilities more sensibly they cld be on the property ladder now" comes off all hegemonic conservative

but yes i haven't got a problem w/ how this has unfolded - everyone's playing their part properly; i love boners; some good track titles - it's a good time

chiding the band "oh if only they'd handled their industry responsibilities more sensibly they cld be on the property ladder now" comes off all hegemonic conservative

yeah i don't think that's what he was saying at all

please stop typing noise rap

it's funny because they already canceled a tour to make this fabled TWO ALBUMS IN A YEAR thing happen and it seemed like fans were more pissed about no shows than they were excited about more studio recordings (which made me assume the label were gung ho about the 2nd album coming ASAP). so it's like, build a following and get signed just to rush an album than neither the fans nor the label were chomping at the bit for, in ways that actively annoy both.

chiding the band "oh if only they'd handled their industry responsibilities more sensibly they cld be on the property ladder now" comes off all hegemonic conservative

??

i think the point is don't sign to a major to begin with! it's never been easier to not sign with a major label!

they should have just signed to Load or something that made sense then it would have been a boner city extravaganza

reading this totally in-keeping bit of snottiness as naive/poorly judged completely ignores the image/myth the band have built up, and i can believe they did this in part to reassert their control over that after the cancellation fiasco

they'd have been better on an indie, but i'm perfectly happy for them to burn their bridges like this given where they are, who cares?

who said they are naive? i think they know what they are doing they are just being full of shit about it. obv they are smart dudes.

also although i like this i think they have been slowly getting less fun since ex-military so i'd like to see them take a hard left turn

I'm still not clear why Epic even signed them (I mean I assume DG got an advance so I see what they get out of it.).

"inaccessible and unmarketable noise rap"

uh yeah this is why hipsters were playing this at the outside bar this summer

la reid had been reading society of the spectacle & saw his chance

death grips is pretty hooky, they have a lot of catchy parts IMO, some noisy textures and yelling but i think it's poppy

This better than Money Store and has a dick on it

If u like it then u shoulda put a dick on it
Don't be mad cuz a noise rap band leaked it
If u liked it then u shoulda put a dick on it
YUH YUH YUUUUUHHHHHH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUH YUUUUUUUUNGH

three day ban for forks

U mad

now every time a website goes down because of excessive traffic i'm gonna assume l.a. reid is behind it

http://i.imgur.com/tko8F.jpg

this is NOT better than money store but i still like it a lot but i think you gotta be pretty into willful abuse to enjoy it which i guess was probably their intent wheat-from-chaffing their audience or whatever.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mx40WEfb1qe8fd7o3_r1_500.gif

meat from chaff

oh that's creepy

easy subway joke goes here

inaccessible, really? i'd like to think audiences aren't _that_ stupid, never mind the success of that awful carly rae jepsen song. people can get into dumb crap and also interesting weird shit.

you can love both, it's a complex world

yeah. i played money store for my brother whose musical tastes run the gamut from 90s ska to 90s pop-punk and he thought it was pretty good.

this new one is really awesome

world of dogs!

good record. funny how it's a thin line between these beats sounding like the FUTURE vs heavy '90s vibes (like the last few tracks).

I liked the first record but haven't cared enough to check out these new ones. Kind of intrigued by their dick tho.

had an actual debate with my gf last night about whether it's a real dick or not

Pretty sure that's the genuine article.

Dare I ask how detailed you got.

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/121001-deepweb.png

topics included translucency, hair, etc

... translucency, huh?

apparently it is oddly translucent? i don't know man, it looks like a dick to me.

and if you ever saw it
you would even say it GLOWS

i think it looks like a weird dick

been beaten for its crimes obv

"black dice" and "whammy" are my shit on this

the dick looks kinda weird but i don't think it would've made sense for them to use a trad cock for the cover of this album

they make post-cock after all

noise dick

rap-cock

"whammy" is my fave too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNaJ7xlnDk

uh what is a trad cock

Trad Cock?
http://www.americanrockscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/robert-plant-unit.jpg

The Bug supporting them in London next month. sheeeeeeit.

that'd be a good combination

TOO MANY HOES IN MY MUTHAFUCKIN MEAL!
ASKIN IF I KNOW HOW A MUTHAFUCKA FEEL!

November 12 at Music Hall of Williamsburg:
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/173223/
just bought mine

Tues, Nov 13 2012 - Rock and Roll Hotel - Washington, DC: http://www.ticketalternative.com/Venues/26.aspx

Weds, Nov 14 2012 - First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/172299

Fri, Nov 16 2012 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010049420671AE48

Sun, Nov 18 2012 - Wrong Bar - Toronto, ON: http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3134814&pl=embrace

Mon, Nov 19 2012 - Magic Stick - Detroit, MI:

Tues, Nov 20 2012 - Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL:

Weds, Nov 21 2012 - 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN: https://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?performance_id=1664074&cobrand=first-avenue

so let's see.

le poisson rouge show on the 17th with flying lotus is gonna be streamed.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/162289032/npr-music-live-from-cmj

New video is sick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZZ16QUAjQ&feature=youtu.be

they go on soon
http://www.npr.org/event/music/162289032/npr-music-live-from-cmj

Tues, Nov 20 2012 - Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3135404

twitter gone?

And apparently dropped by Epic too. Haha wtf Epic. :P

Love this.

how is that 'wtf epic' at all

unlimited supply
there is no reason why
etc

Is it lame of me to actually want to take the label's side in this? And I say this as a DG fan (albeit one who liked Money Store better)

you wish they'd honoured their contract to preserve harmony w/ the label & wait til next year to release?

if it's been 5 years since your last album and the label wants to push the new one back, it makes sense to get frustrated and think about leaking it. if it's been 5 months it's just kind of an empty gesture of rebellion.

what's at stake?

no clue--i really don't understand their angle

I meant, why does it matter either way what they do?

i don't think it matters, i just think it's confusing

Some dude OTM

"how is that 'wtf epic' at all"

This is at signing them in the first place. Obviously Death Grips doesn't really care about being on Epic.

And I'm not sure why Epic should care about them giving away their music for free either frankly.

yeah signing them in the first place is the only move on the label's part i don't get. everything else is pretty standard.

although majors release lots of niche stuff these days and they seemed to have realistic commercial expectations for them

And I'm not sure why Epic should care about them giving away their music for free either frankly.

Serious... oh wait, you're trollin' here.

Not really. Unless you think that unleashing it on the web has somehow devalued their next Epic album.

You don't see how a label that stands to make money (okay, probably not a lot, but still) by selling your album might be torqued off that you gave it away for free?

jon did you miss the bit where the label wasn't interested in releasing it for another year? Considering they've recorded three albums in the last twelve months, I suspect they'd be able to deliver another one by that point.

They would still be releasing it though. I mean, its not hard to figure out how labels work.

but by then everyone would be sick of death grips because they had released a bunch of similar-sounding music in a short timespan

Not really. Unless you think that unleashing it on the web has somehow devalued their next Epic album.

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, November 1, 2012 11:10 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you say "unless you think" like this would be a really weird position to take

If I'm Epic I'm more pissed that they cancelled their tour which would be in theory promoting the album Epic actually released than that they released another record on the interwebs.

xp yeah I think it's a pretty weird position to take on a band that you signed on the basis of a free mixtape frankly.

"but by then everyone would be sick of death grips because they had released a bunch of similar-sounding music in a short timespan"

That would probably be a good time to drop then, right?

Drop them, ahem.

But, uh, tons of bands get signed on the basis of free demos. I'm not sure what your point is? They gave away music that Epic was supposed to be making money off of. I'm not trying to play captain save-a-major here, but it's not hard to understand why they're pissed off about it.

so basically you're confused by the fact that the label would want to throw its full marketing power behind each release, which it basically can't do if the releases are too close together. so then epic is stuck in this position of being like "no, ignore these free releases and pay attention to these official releases" which is absurd. you can't flood the market with a bunch of music and ask people to pay for half of it but not the other half.

lots of major label rap artists release mixtapes on the black market, sometimes even without the label's knowledge or explicit permission. but this was never called a mixtape, it was always called an album and was the album they'd promised to the label right up until they put it online. i mean it's a semantic thing but most legal issues are.

issue is probably much less that they put out some free music than the obnoxious (figurative and literal) dick-waving the group did about it

there's prob another point in there about death grips being marketed to a diff, more album-oriented audience than other rappers who put out mixtapes but i'm not the guy with the knowledge to make it.

There is a good argument to be made that this band's general obnoxiousness is one of their more marketable assets.

oh yeah absolutely. i'm just saying there IS a precedent for that kind of thing but they weren't following it musically or businesswise. (xpost)

sure, but for that to work the band needs to be obnoxious to everyone but the label