Album Rating: 4.5
It definitely works as party music too, I just don't think it's limited to it.
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I'm not into rap at all, but I know enough songs from this album where I'm pretty sure this deserves at least a 3.5 ...
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the boundaries of music today are definitely being stretched by groups like this
Less "the boundaries of music today are being stretched" as much as "the boundaries of popular music are being stretched". Death Grips takes ideas from pretty commonly accepted genres--the aggression of hardcore, the rhythmic drive of hip hop, the abrasiveness of industrial--and melds them all together. It's not like they're redefining music today as a whole but they stretch the boundaries in the sense that it's like "oh, you can do this with hip hop?" or "oh, you can do this with industrial?"
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Album Rating: 4.0
yesyesyesyesyes
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah I treat this more like a hardcore or metal album than a hip hop one
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Album Rating: 4.0
It's cos only white people listen to it right?
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Album Rating: 3.5
very astute observation dimsim! i looked at the situation too broadly is all. I appreciate the commentary and hope that even though you like this album a lot, you can still see and respect my point of view as well. And Ars I love rap which is what makes this album so hard to like. There is no depth and substance in the lyrics; it takes everything naysayers about the hop-hop/rap genre say about lack of emotion and importance and validates them
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Album Rating: 3.5
Toad you make great points and I while I can certainly respect and perceive your point of view, it is one I can't whole-heartedly agree with. I'm glad you liked the review however and hope you continue to read mine in the future.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I'm only 18 and am already making comments like "this is what kids are listening to now?? this is music???". that's how you
know the music game is evolving exponentially, shit's transforming faster than anyone can keep up with.
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hope that even though you like this album a lot, you can still see and respect my point of view as well.
Absolutely, man. You're a very respectful dude so I gotta reciprocate that.
yeah I treat this more like a hardcore or metal album than a hip hop one
Agreed. I can appreciate the hip hop elements but if you treat it entirely as hip hop, you're just gonna end up with a conclusion similar to Sobhi's review.
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Album Rating: 1.5
good stuff
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Album Rating: 3.5
dimsim I think that's what makes this album so hard for me to appreciate. It's one of those albums that tries to do a bunch of different things but none of them very well. There is a 'choose your own adventure' quality to this album that morphs your reception of the album based on your perception of it... someone who views this as a hardcore or metal album as previously stated might enjoy it more simply for the heaviness and resonance in the beats while someone who goes into this viewing it as a rap album will be left annoyed with the absence of lyrical depth and flow
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Album Rating: 4.5
#420blazeitfgt
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Album Rating: 5.0
Well-written review.
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Album Rating: 3.5
thanks jtswope. I've seen you on a couple of my reviews in the past so the fact that you keep reading them and continue to like them makes me happy. thanks everyone for the feedback; even on my 11th review I'm still managing to learn a lot so that I can make my 12th one even better!
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Album Rating: 3.5
added an extra paragraph that I think helps shed a bit of light on my personal view as well the opposing view
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There is a 'choose your own adventure' quality to this album that morphs your reception of the album based on your perception of it
First off, I don't think it's as much "you gotta have the right perception to enjoy this album" as much as "the artists make it unclear how you're supposed to perceive this album". As for me, I got my perception of the album immediately upon hearing it for the first time: no genre, just Death Grips. It's the kind of music that if you put into a box you realize it won't fit. They definitely do a bunch of different stuff on this record, but I think they meld all those different things together into their own sound and I personally find it to be a very well defined, individual musical identity. This is basically my boiled-down thesis right here: they're definitely not these "revolutionary experimentalists" that all these people seem to claim they are on /mu/ and shit but what they do is they take all these different elements and bond them together into a single, cohesive, individual sound.
now i'm gonna go to bed
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Album Rating: 5.0
Well, I can definitely understand your gripes with the 'grips. The terminology you used in the review to describe the sound is dead on and accurate. However, I think it's absolutely brilliant. To me, modern music and its brilliance lie in what it's trying to achieve. With Death Grips, they are really more of a social experiment than so much of a group of artists. I mean let's just start with the name "Death Grips", named after a masturbatory method. Then "NO LOVE DEEP WEB" has a damn penis as the cover. Call it shock if you will, but they get people's attention in the sea of today's music, and just when someone gives them money and or recognition they just make whoever that did so look like an idiot. To me, that's amazing. But in their line of music, who else sounds like a schizophrenic mess like MC Ride, and who else puts Jane's Addiction, Charles Manson, and Pet Shop Boys behind such a MC? Now, I know I'm commenting on them as a whole, but TMS here is their "major-label album", the one that was "well" produced and had (for Death Grips) the most pop and appeal out of their 4 albums to date. If you explore their other work, you'll find that each of their albums are quite stylistically varied from one another, despite all 4 being released within a 2 year time span. But overall, 10 years down the road if this is a classic, you will be wrong. In that same time span, if this is a thing of the past, then you will be right and I'll be the one who was "fooled" by their music.
And one last thing, I thought your review was well written throughout all but you comparing a song from 2012 sounding like a song released over a year later that was influenced by Death Grips.
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Album Rating: 4.0
deathschool pretty much nailed it. Death Grips are obnoxious in a way that you either love or hate, and both opinions are pretty valid. Personally I think this is their best.
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Album Rating: 3.5
SurfWaxAmerica I appreciate the time you took to not only read my review but also try to understand my point of view. That means a lot, honestly. As for your reception of the album, I can totally see that there is a 'shock value' that is attached to the music. But to me, those gimmicks take away from the music itself and shift the focus from the music to an idea, which is not what I am reviewing. I can understand and even appreciate the significance Death Grips is trying to create amidst a "sea of other bands" as you so correctly put it, but as far as barebones music goes, I just am not a fan. simple as that.
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