Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Third Worlds/Harvest Records

Bottomless Pit is the fifth studio album from Experimental Hip-Hop renegades Death Grips. It's five years to the day since its release.

Few acts single handedly manifest their own lane and sculpt their own being. Death Grips are the contemporary poster boys for an antithetical commercial existence. Albeit they have made a name for themselves within a fairly commercial world. Sometimes it's useful to be a part of the world that you're seemingly against in order to know your enemies moves. As they say 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'. For example Rage Against The Machine raged against the machine although they were simultaneously apart of it.

Bottomless Pit is Death Grips at their most presentable, in my opinion, although it may be a stretch to call it accessible. It's as close to a pop sensible DG as you're going to get and for this reason it may just be the ideal point to start if you're looking to get into their work. Scattered throughout Bottomless Pit are moments of pristine forthright beauty. Maybe not beauty in the sense that we have come to communally understand as 'good-looking' or pleasant on the eyes and ears but beautiful in the sense that the unconventional can be presented in a listenable manner.

This is the sort of music that will be looked back upon and said how on earth was it devised? 'There must have been something in the water' is what people will say. The visceral onslaught of their live performances will go down as a 'you had to be there' type ordeal. The landscape of the 2010's music scene wouldn't be the same without the presence of the forward thinking Sacramento three-piece.

Favourite Track: Warping

May 6th, 2016.