Year of the Snitch
Death Grips 2018 isolated
experimental hip-hop noise-rock Industrial Hip-Hop Outsider Rap
Death Grips dismantling Death Grips — a carnivalesque noise collage that treats their own formula as raw material for sabotage, arriving at something genuinely alien.
Acoustic Profile
Production
Method: hybrid
Fidelity: lo-fi-aesthetic
Outsider art collage approach to song structureWarped tape-like degradation effectsNoise rock guitar integration with electronic beatsIntentionally claustrophobic vocal mixingGenre-hopping within individual tracks
Vocal
Approach: mixed
Lyrical Abstraction: 9/10
Mood & Theme
paranoia playfulness anxiety chaos
Territory: Betrayal Networks, Information Warfare, Grotesque Humor, Institutional Decay
Emotional Arc: Paranoid Disorientation
Era & Context
Released without warning after announcing their breakup and then un-breaking up, Year of the Snitch saw Death Grips incorporating noise rock and outsider music influences into their most unpredictable record. Collaborations with members of Shrek Is Love brought an eerie, carnivalesque quality that destabilized even their most devoted fans' expectations.
Spiritual Links (12)
Mutant Arca (2015)
7/10 genre-destructionsonic-experimentation
Veteran JPEGMAFIA (2018)
7/10 sonic-experimentationgenre-destruction
Drukqs Aphex Twin (2001)
6/10 sonic-experimentationrhythmic-innovation
Black Ben Carson JPEGMAFIA (2016)
6/10 sonic-experimentationgenre-destruction
LP! JPEGMAFIA (2021)
6/10 sonic-experimentationgenre-destruction
EVOL Sonic Youth (1986)
5/10 sonic-experimentationtextural-exploration
Fear of Music Talking Heads (1979)
5/10 technological-anxietysonic-experimentation
Year Zero Nine Inch Nails (2007)
5/10 technological-anxietysonic-experimentation
Third Portishead (2008)
5/10 radical-reinventionsonic-experimentation
Untilted Autechre (2005)
5/10 rhythmic-innovationsonic-experimentation
All My Heroes Are Cornballs JPEGMAFIA (2019)
5/10 sonic-experimentationgenre-destruction
You're Dead! Flying Lotus (2014)
4/10 genre-destructionmaximalist-excess
Influences
Absorbed from
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