CLPPNG

"Et eksperimenterende, elektronisk, industrielt og mørkt univers som er skabt af rapperen Daveed Diggs og producerne Jonathan Snipes og William Hutson ... Den eksperimenterende tilgang ender ofte i noget der mest af alt er larm eller noget der minder om en fæl tinnitus. Det fede er omvendt at Diggs virkelig kan rappe, og deres stil er gennemført. Men den er med garanti ikke for alle".

"Initially, clipping. made power electronics-influenced remixes of rap songs, a formula that they stuck fairly close to when they recorded their 2013 debut Midcity after recruiting Diggs to provide original vocals. Their second album, CLPPNG, opens with a solid minute of the kind of dissonant, legitimately painful high-pitched feedback that sadistic noise guitarists favor, along with some vigorous cypher-style spitting. It's a clear provocation and a quick primer on the group's aesthetic aim, which is to deconstruct rap music while staying within the genre's confines - and it's also a summation of the group's two major flaws, which are that the tracks go just a little too far in their eagerness to challenge their audience and the raps they're sharing space with are too banal to make the challenge worth it ... Overall, CLPPNG is chock full of ideas, and if its failure is due to overambitiousness, well, there are worse ways to fail".

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