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clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned (October 23) Album

Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by Rowan5215, Aug 25, 2020.

  1. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    new album that was apparently recorded alongside There Existed an Addiction to Blood. holy shit I'm excited


    "In the horror genre, sequels are perfunctory. As the insufferable film bro Randy explains in Scream 2, “There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to create a successful sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate—more blood, more gore. Carnage candy. And number three: never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead.” Last Halloween, Los Angeles experimental rap mainstays Clipping ended their three-year silence with the horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. This October, rapper Daveed Diggs, and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson return with an even higher body count, more elaborate kills, and monsters that just won’t stay dead.

    Visions of Bodies Being Burned is less a sequel than it is the second half of a planned diptych. It turns out, Clipping took to the thematic material of horrorcore like vampires to grave soil. Before the release of There Existed an Addiction to Blood, Clipping and Sub Pop Records divided the material up into two albums, designed to be released only months apart. However, a global pandemic and multiple canceled tours pushed the release of the project’s “part two” until the following Halloween season.

    Visions of Bodies Being Burned contains sixteen more scary stories disguised as rap songs, incorporating as much influence from Ernest Dickerson, Clive Barker, and Shirley Jackson as it does from Three 6 Mafia, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Brotha Lynch Hung. Clipping’s angular, shattered interpretations of existing musical styles are always deferential, driven by fandom for the object of study rather than disdain for it. Clipping reimagine horrorcore—the purposely absurdist hip-hop subgenre that flourished in the 1990s—the way Jordan Peele does horror cinema: by twisting beloved tropes to make explicit their own radical politics of monstrosity, fear, and the uncanny.

    The album features a host of collaborators: Inglewood’s Cam and China, fellow noise-rap pioneers Ho99o9, Tortoise guitar genius Jeff Parker, and experimental LA drummer Ted Byrnes. The final track, Secret Piece, is a performance of a Yoko Ono text score from 1953 that instructs the players to “Decide on one note that you want to play/Play it with the following accompaniment: the woods from 5am to 8am in summer,” and features nearly all of the musicians who appeared on both albums."
     
  2. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    first single is out too



     
  3. Olyphantastic

    "See you in the car! Best wishes" -Milhouse Supporter

    Oh my godddd I love There Existed... this is just great news.
     
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  4. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    it's one of my favourite albums of the past couple years, if this lives up damn
     
  5. Let’s go!!!!
     
  6. PauLo Aug 26, 2020
    (Last edited: Aug 26, 2020)
    PauLo

    43% Burnt

    Damn, somehow missed this announcement!

    That feature list, tho. You can't get four more different acts than Cam & China, Jeff Parker, Ted Byrnes and Ho99o9.
     
  7. SpyKi

    You must fix your heart Supporter

    Hype.
     
  8. thread

     
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  9. also this shit is fire
     
  10. I Am Mick

    @gravebug Prestigious

    absolutely fuck yes. Still listen to Blood regularly, wasn't expecting another album so soon
     
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  11. I Am Mick

    @gravebug Prestigious

    Holy shit Say The Name goes hard at the end there
     
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  12. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    they have a four-pack of this, Addiction, Splendor & Misery and CLPPNG on their site for a terrific price. vinyl, CD or digital
     
  13. Olyphantastic

    "See you in the car! Best wishes" -Milhouse Supporter

    Purchased. Even with shipping and currency conversion, it's the same price or cheaper than buying the records individually in stores here.
     
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  14. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    same lol, and I don't think a single shop in Australia would have a copy of a clipping CD so I'm willing to pay the shipping

    only way I could be more hyped for this is if "Story 6" was on it
     
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  15. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    their live album came out today as well, I think it's only RSD thus far but going up on bandcamp at some point

    clipping feeding us this year
     
  16. very enlightening thread about the song and how much the Issac Hayes estate fucked them over

     
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  17. PauLo

    43% Burnt

    FFS was just coming here to post that, ya bastard!
     
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  18. I Am Mick

    @gravebug Prestigious

    that's fucked
     
  19. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    sampling law is so fucking ridiculous lol
     
  20. PauLo

    43% Burnt

    It’s daft, but I think it’s better than it was. Hence why the Isaac Hayes estate owns so much of a Geto Boys song!
     
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  21. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    it's maybe better than it was, but it's still nine times out of ten screwing creatives out of their money and giving it to the labels
     
  22. PauLo

    43% Burnt

    Oh yeah, no doubt. I just meant that the process of clearing a sample is a lot more straightforward than it was... this song aside haha
     
  23. JM95

    Trusted

    Here for this. TEAATB has continued to grow on me and I really liked it to begin with.
     
  24. Olyphantastic

    "See you in the car! Best wishes" -Milhouse Supporter

     
  25. one of my favorite tracks on the album!
     
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