The Los Angeles trio returns with a new album of radical, unruly, and adventurous hip-hop. Science fiction visionary Octavia Butler once said, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” The aphorism could apply to any art form where the basic contours are fixed, yet the appetite for innovation remains infinite. Enter Clipping, masters of flash fiction in a hip-hop world solidly rooted in memory. If first-person confessional historically reigns supreme, the trio of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes have spent the last half-decade terraforming their own terrain, filled with conceptual mazes and industrial chaos. They have conjured a mutant emanation of the future, built at bizarre angles upon the sacred foundations of the past. Their third album for Sub Pop, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, finds them interpreting another rap subgenre through their singular lens. It's about horror's transmutation through the clip, a willfully absurd and creatively significant subgenre that flourished in the mid-90s. It's a core of horror that absorbs past blood and replants it into a different organism, immortal but dangerously alive. It's a new sun, blindingly bright and built to burn your retinas.
Buy There Existed An Addiction To Blood at the best price
Amazon
eBay
Rare Vinyl
