Death Grips – No Love Deep Web

Granted this is hardly new music, but when I saw a copy of No Love Deep Web in Piccadilly records, I realised that I don’t actually own any Death Grips on vinyl.

Originally released in 2013, listening to this made me realise just how hard the Death Grips sound is to pin down.

Part art project, part of industrial noise foray – for me, this is one of their more accessible cuts. Fat basses, drum machine electro-tinged beats with the heavy, deranged punk vocals of their frontman MC Ride.

As the tracks go I think ‘Black Dice’ and ‘Bass Rattle Stars Out the Sky’ are the ones doing it for me.

Warning, Death Grips is not for the faint of heart, I feel I should say this as more of a disclaimer. Someone asked me if it would ‘all be a bit much’ for them. I struggled to form a response, as I have attended some of the heavier drum and bass nights hosting the likes of Limewax and Current Value.

I got tickets and managed to see them live in 2018, which was pretty intense. Instead of a support act they just had a drone, which rised in pitch before they came on played a blinder.