Avant-Garde experimental hardcore rap group featuring MC Ride and Zach Hill on drums (Hella/Wavves). Zach Hill’s influence certainly comes through in beats and the methamphetamine/hippie trippie production. What makes Death Grips debut mixtape such a revelation is less the sense of hearing something genuinely new (which it certainly is), but the fact that it works, and works so well. The band describes itself as Avant Hip hop but make no mistake, this is as hardcore as anything Youth Brigade ever recorded. MC Ride spits rhymes with the full throated fury of Henry Rollins (who they sample) added with some dense production of Flatlander. Order this and be ahead of the curve.

 

Review:

Before all meaning there is rawness, and it’s in rawness’ name that Death Grips preach. Shrouded in the mystery and nihilism that’s come to characterise 2011’s leftfield hip-hop in the wake of Odd Future, rawness is the word the California collective just keep returning to. It’s their central idea, their altar, their church. “Beyond raw,” says producer and visual artist Flatlander, the project’s mastermind. “Our sound is post-Satanic, post-Christian.”

 

Now you mention it, in our age of post-consumer fatigue and trust-destroying social upheaval, there’s something timely in a sound that speaks explicitly from beyond the principles of good and evil – even if that sound is as potentially violent and mind-damaging as this. They’re like a deadly serious Tyler & Co (no toilet misogyny here, folks).

 

Straight from a basement in Sacramento, Flatlander, along with the frenetic and possibly dangerous MC Ride, Mexican Girl, Info Warrior and math-rock supremo and sometime “eight-armed” Wavves drummer Zach Hill, blew a hole in the head of the internet a few months back when they unleashed debut mixtape ‘Exmilitary’ for free. Sampling the likes of Link Wray’s classic ‘Rumble’, snippets of Jane’s Addiction and even Charles Manson (all playing second fiddle to MC Ride’s disturbed screaming, we might add), their heavy, introspectively macabre beat-soup was a disarming expression of their universe. Netizens dug their new science and downloads skyrocketed, and what’s more, the stems and a cappellas for ‘Exmilitary’ have now been released online for followers to refit for their own ends.

 

With a strong visual style, Death Grips’ YouTube account seems more like an abrasive video-art installation, while their live shows are all-inclusive carnivals of chaos. As Flatlander describes it, “the whole room becomes an instrument.” They’re currently recording a debut proper that could very well redefine hip-hop in 2012, and their arrival in the UK – they’re here until the end of September – promises a right raw ransacking of British shores. ~ Alex Hoban NME

 

Track List:

Side One:

1. Beware [Explicit]   [5:52]

2. Guillotine (It Goes Yah) [Explicit]   [3:43]

3. Spread Eagle Cross the Block [Explicit]   [3:51]

4. Lord of the Game (ft.Mexican Girl) [Explicit]   [3:30]

5. Takyon (Death Yon) [Explicit]   [2:48]

6. Cut Throat (Instrumental)   [1:12]

7. Klink [Explicit]   [3:22]

Side Two:

8. Culture Shock [Explicit]   [4:20]

9. 5d   [0:43]

10. Thru the Walls [Explicit]   [3:55]

11. Known for It [Explicit]   [4:12]

12. I Want It I Need It (Death Heated) [Explicit]   [6:10]

13. Blood Creepin [Explicit]   [4:50]

 

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