Death Grips - The Money Store

From Pitchfork:

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If you need proof of the current industry-wide fascination with "weirdness" in rap music, you can't do much better than this. Sacramento punk-rap outfit Death Grips, who are best known for lo-fi, apocalyptic,

and lyrics like,

have signed a record deal with Epic, the major label home to artists like Fiona Apple and Natasha Bedingfield.

Death Grips plan to release two album with Epic this year to follow up last year's solid mixtape Exmilitary. The first, The Money Store, will be out on April 24 and includes the two most recent Death Grips tracks we've heard, "Blackjack" and "Get Got". (It'll also be available on vinyl April 21 as part of Record Store Day). The second album's called No Love and is scheduled for a fall release.

Suprised they signed to Epic, I guess they realised there's money in appealing to the hipster demographic? Anyway more Death Grips is always good news and by the sounds of Get Got, this could be amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpxZdL2hQVc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrKSqb4H4A

psyched as hell. exmilitary was one of my favourite releases last year. both new tracks sound killer altho I wasn't huge on them the first time I listened. they can only sound better in context of the album(s).

wtf, they have a VEVO channel?

this is getting weird.

Jeesus, each track is exciting me more and more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAURatEXp9k

They're going to end up leaking the whole album for free themselves before it's released by this rate.

Seeing them live in may!!

Gonna be mental (I hope)

definitely increasingly curious about these dudes, and plan on picking up the LP on RSD if it's still available at other music or wherever the hell i end up going.

nuts

Wow, more excited for this than I am for BoC.

Definitely good news :D

http://thequietus.co...ey-store-review

Sounds fucking mental.

So far 2012 is looking insanely good.

this sounds like the best yet imo.

these tracks are fucking SICK, thanks for the heads up! i agree about The Fever, that one sounds amazing. great video for it too, so much energy.

i'm really lookin forward to this.

Another day, another song gets leaked. Miami bass anyone?

Preorders are up. Digital preorder is only 8 bucks for 13 songs. Not too bad.

So apparently people have already received their pre-ordered vinyl....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1U88JJrg28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNhHxV2bkH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47oQZt2nRr8

I just got the cd at the Refused show.

The tracks on the new album are all incredible. The only problem is... I think they mastered the CD poorly.

The sound is way to flat and erring on high end, over low end. Not enough bass, by far. It has a tinny sound.

It is there in the recording, just not in the mixing/mastering.

My theory is that now, they are with a major label and shit got fucked up. Ex-Military sounds way better.

I'm actually kinda sad about it. I really wouldn't even bring it up, but I was listening to it in my car on the way home and my car stereo is pretty decent. Bass on the radio usually sounds way bigger. I'm talking, even Van Halen.

If you get the album, don't get it on cd. Get it on LP or try getting a digital copy. My 2¢.

FYI, if you are going to cochella, they will have the vinyl LP there. There was some mix-up and they didn't have it at the Glass House show :(

oh yes

death grips doing a party record

and it works so fucking well

sucks : /

all up on their soundcloud now: http://soundcloud.com/deathgrips/sets/the-money-store/

  On 4/13/2012 at 9:22 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

death grips doing a party record

exactly how I feel about it

and it's not a good thing to me. huge disappointment.

For what it's worth there is a 10/10 review on Drowned in Sound

http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16947/reviews/4144782

I look forward to drawing my own conclusions. I haven't listened to any leaks....

I'll pass. lol at buying a Sac groups music from the UK.

Best of 2012 so far without a doubt, for me at least. Snagged the vinyl this morning. sounds waaaay better than the digital. I mean records always do on vinyl, but you can really tell here.

  On 4/18/2012 at 9:23 PM, SPD² said:

I'll pass. lol at buying a Sac groups music from the UK.

Eh?