![]() ![]() Jake : This is the album that Death Grips needed to make after The Powers That B. Of course, it’s not perfect, but it has giving bad people good ideas, and that’s good enough. i feel like what with the naturally bloated nature of the powers that be double album, bottomless pit is the shot in the arm the band’s career needed to stop them fully sinking into a source for patrician memes, and put them back on top as one of popular music’s most daring rascals. the increasing use of live instrumentations gels nicely with the group’s signature use of abrasive electronics and mc ride’s rhymes have never been more memorable. Here we have Death Grips navigating between the polarizing, metal-influenced sound of Jenny Death and the more familiar synth-driven style present on the group’s previous records.īut because Death Grips thrive on tension, the result is an album that’s steeped in the band’s past while also looking forward in terms of musical direction. Sean : When I interviewed Cherry Glazerr recently, I asked Clem Creevy about working with Death Grips on “Giving Bad People Good Ideas.” She may have been lying to me when she said she recorded the song in a pink room teeming with candy and stuffed animals, but the dichotomy of comfort and alienation in her story embodies much of Bottomless Pit. This is their most polished and consistent record since The Money Store, and in my eyes, although isn’t a massive step forward in their musical progression, is still a significant one – the more constant use of live instrumentation gave the band more ability to show pure aggression. I wasn’t expecting such a fufilled and remarkably adamant statement from the band. ![]() Karsten : When this album dropped it really surprised me. Liam : Being the newest record out of the lot, it’s no surprise that it ranks lower than the rest due to it not having as much time to resonate and while I think it has the second weakest tracklist out of any DG LP, it’s still remarkably solid and lives up to the title of being “Money Store 2.0” when you magnify everything. jenny death to me is undoubtedly the better half, but i have no strong feelings on “moon” – it doesn’t stand out for better (bottomless pit) or for worse (government plates) amongst their other albums in this level of ranking. Josh : This one just sort of “exists” for me. In terms of style and sound, this is in my top three: that Bjork sampling mixed with some of the fucking weirdest sounds and lyrics MC Ride has ever spat made NOTM far different to how aggressive and tumultuous JD is. Liam : I think this album gets unfairly shat on by a lot of die hard death grips fans. I personally have trouble with Jenny Death because part of me can’t shake the Limp Bizkit vibe, but I’m consistently impressed with NotM.Įven if it’s one of the most divisive entries in the Death Grips oeuvre, I will eternally testify to the brilliance of “Black Quarterback” and “Billy Not Really.” Its first half is a glitching song cycle based around a collection of Bjork samples, while the second record flirts with rap-metal in a way that marries the two genres with more tact than Fred Durst ever could. Sean : The Powers That B is perhaps Death Grips’ most challenging record (for fans, anyway). On the weaker side of DG’s discography for me, but to be fair a good Death Grips album is better than most of your favourite band’s best albums. The second half of the record flirts with a rap metal sound that isn’t exactly my cup of tea, but that doesn’t necessarily make it bad per se. Jake : While I don’t dislike this album by any means (it has some of my favourite DG tracks ever in Billy Not Really, Why A Bitch Gotta Lie and Death Grips 2.0) it just feels a bit… bloated? That being said, the first half’s “gimmick” (for lack of a better word) of using Björk samples works unbelievably well. There’s the odd song on here that I really really enjoy, even on NOTM, but for sadly the vast majority of the album, I’m left thinking “this is kinda alright”, rather than what I usually expect from Death Grips – a massive fucking “wow”. Karsten : To me, Jenny Death is by far the better CD here, but still overall this double release just screams…eh.
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