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."
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.
they have a four-pack of this, Addiction, Splendor & Misery and CLPPNG on their site for a terrific price. vinyl, CD or digital
Purchased. Even with shipping and currency conversion, it's the same price or cheaper than buying the records individually in stores here.
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
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
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!
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
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