Tag: Death Grips

  • Every Death Grips Album, Ranked From Worst To Best

    Every Death Grips Album, Ranked From Worst To Best

    Repeatedly referred to as one of the most important bands of the decade, Jake, Josh, Liam, Sean and Karsten definitively rank Death Grips discography.

  • Killer Finales: Albums That Finish With Their Strongest Tracks

    Killer Finales: Albums That Finish With Their Strongest Tracks

    They might say start as you mean to go on but if you’re gonna go out, go out with a bang! The team counts down the albums that leave an imprint with their final tune.

  • Field Day 2017 Highlights

    Field Day 2017 Highlights

    Showcasing pioneers both past and present, Field Day 2017 may be the best one yet.

  • Top 50 Songs of 2016

    Top 50 Songs of 2016

            By Liam Menzies (@blinkclyro) It’s here! Chuck those negative opinions aside as for the next week we’ll be counting down my musical highlights of the year. While 2016 was full of many negative events (US election, multiple celebrity death, suicide squad, damn daniel etc.), on the other side of the coin music…

  • DEATH GRIPS @ GLASGOW SWG3 – 14/10/16

    DEATH GRIPS @ GLASGOW SWG3 – 14/10/16

    By Liam Menzies (@blinkclyro) Well, I can openly admit that I never expected to be writing this review in my lifetime. Not that I’m not a fan of Death Grips (you’ll find it’s quite the opposite due to the repeated presence on my AOTY lists), more so that the experimental hip hop rock band seem…

  • FAV ALBUMS OF 2016 (SO FAR)

    FAV ALBUMS OF 2016 (SO FAR)

    As we bid farewell to the first half of the year and set out for a new batch of high quality albums and singles, now is a better time than any to have a little retrospective on what we experienced or, better yet, enjoyed between January and July of 2016. Of course there are plenty that…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: Death Grips – Bottomless Pit

    ALBUM REVIEW: Death Grips – Bottomless Pit

    Dwelling into what made your glory days so, well, glorious can be a dangerous task: pull it off and fans will see you as a perfectionist, fail and others will assume you’ve ran out of ideas. Thankfully it’s the former for Sacramento hip hop, rock act Death Grips, a band whose delivery of music has been…

  • Best Of: April 2016

    Best Of: April 2016

    A lookback at this month in music, listing the greatest albums and singles that April had to offer. ALBUMS 5. Drake – Views While it may go on a bit longer than necessary and hit a few dud notes in the process, the highlights of Drake’s fourth LP far outweigh these gripes and result in…

  • Thoughts On: Coachella 2016

    Thoughts On: Coachella 2016

    There’s an ongoing joke about the cleanliness at Coachella: compared to the rugged, filthy conditions that music lovers at UK festivals thrive in, the California located event is the aftermath of a cillit bang advert. This, in addition to the near soulless crowds, results in people brushing off Coachella as nothing but an overhyped fashion…

  • EP REVIEW: Death Grips – Interview 2016

    EP REVIEW: Death Grips – Interview 2016

    Reviewing a release from Death Grips is never easy. The biggest challenge with the Sacramento hip hop act isn’t the music itself but how it’s delivered, sometimes in a conventional fashion, other times leaked by the band themselves. So it isn’t surprising that we have Interview 2016 on our hands whilst waiting for the much…