The I.L.Y's - Scum with Boundaries

The Zach Hill and Andy Morin passion project returns for another album.

Death Grips - "Inanimate Sensation"

Death Grips drop a new single to tease toward the second half of their yet-to-be-completed double album, The Powers That B.

Death Grips - "Inanimate Sensation" (Video)

Death Grips drops a video single for the first track to be released from their forthcoming album, Jenny Death, which is also the second half of their yet-to-be-completed double album titled The Powers That B. I reviewed the first installment earlier this year.

While it is my job to keep a cool head, it's hard not to be hyped for "Inanimate Sensation." The revving group vocals, presumably live drums, and ear-searing synths all remind me of Death Grips' early work--and sound just as exciting. It's easily one of the most hard-hitting singles of 2014, and I'm hoping much of Jenny Death follows suit.

Death Grips - Niggas On the Moon

Out of the blue, Death Grips drops a new, 8-song project titled Niggas On the Moon, which is supposed to be the first installment of a double album that we should be seeing the second half of later this year. The title of this thing: The Powers That B.

Sonically, NOTM doesn't sound too unlike the recently released Government Plates. The sounds are synthetic, abrasive, and assembled in a jittery display of disorienting proportions. Thankfully, the project features a stronger lyrical component than Government Plates as well.

For an added layer of confusion, Björk is somehow involved with this thing as well. Knowing Death Grips, this project is probably laced with an incalculable number of Björk samples. There's a pretty audible one toward the end of "Billy Not Really," I think.

Stream this project via the widget above, and hit up the DG Facebook page for a download link, which I know the band had posted the night of this album's release onto YouTube and Soundcloud. No guarantee it's still there, though. Enjoy!

Death Grips - "Birds"

Experimental hip hop trio Death Grips comes through with a cryptic and melodic new single.  

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Death Grips- "@DEATHGRIPZ"

Experimental hip hop outfit Death Grips closes out the 2012 edition of Adult Swims summer singles series with a track named after the trio's Twitter handle.

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Death Grips- "I've Seen Footage"

One thing is for sure, a whole lotta tracks have dropped from Death Grips' the Money Store prior to the April 24th album's very nigh release.

Since the group's debut mixtape, Exmilitary, many have questioned the Death Grips' legitimacy as a hip hop project. Is it really hip hop? Well, I hope "I've Seen Footage" quells the questions, because the reference to the golden age of rap is so obvious, it's almost as if Death Grips is teasing the naysayers.

The "scratchy" rhythms at the start of the track sound something like the breathy vocal samples that kick off Tone Loc's "Wild Thing," and the straightforward drum machine beat is akin to countless RUN DMC songs. The guitar riff reminds me of the numerous rap rock collaborations that occurred throughout the 80s, too. Despite the change in direction, Death Grips makes the aesthetic theirs, covering the track with sirens, noises, choppy vocal cuts, and MC Ride's forceful flow.

The lyrics reveal Ride's personal, introspective reactions to seeing images of police violence, hence, "I've Seen Footage." /via/

Death Grips- "The Fever (Aye Aye)" (LOVED)

On the fourth track Death Grips has released from its forthcoming album, the Money Store, MC Ride and company continue to build a musical empire on the morbid and abrasive noise hop foundation laid out on last year's Exmilitary.

Drummer Zach Hill's beats hit hard, featuring some subtle bass drums that are diddling away with fantastic precision. The synths toward the introduction of the track sound like the chopped and looped sample of a space ship engine revving up. The synths change toward the hook, though, sliding a catchy melody into the mix among all the chaos.

Ride's lyrics deal in the kind of imagery only a horrorcore rapper would touch: blood. execution, plague. However, he and Death Grips sidestep that kind of label thanks to the group's extreme sound. Ride's trademark screamed flow gives these words the extreme touch they need to strike fear. Even after acclimating myself to the Death Grips aesthetic with numerous listens, there's still something about the group's music that puts me on edge. It's as if putting a Death Grips track on is the equivalent to hearing blood-curdling screams and gunshots outside my window.

As usual, Ride's flow and Hill's grooves make a deadly combo. Considering how great the material released thus far from this album has been, I can't imagine the forthcoming the Money Store failing to please on at least some level.