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90
Though radically different in execution, The Powers That B is a compelling look at the band's ability to work with sounds both minimal and monumental, while containing some of their most riveting lyrical and musical work in recent memory.
90
Death Grips finally completes an immense double album with the release of Jenny Death, assembling two very different--but satisfying--releases in the DG discography.
83
That’s not a detraction of Niggas on the Moon — it doesn’t feel like less, just different — but more a comment on the relationship between form and content and praise for Jenny Death, which represents another step forward for Death Grips, a group that seems to have walked over the horizon and out of sight albums ago.
70
The second half, Jenny Death, is better. A lot better. It’s perched far closer to the edge of apocalypse, a pinhead upon which Death Grips seem far more at home.
70
The Powers That B is a collection of music explicitly without a thesis, and while that’s fine, it’s harder to place in the scheme of things.
70
Their squashed dynamics leave the dissonances in the gutter, and except for maybe “I Break Mirrors,” it’s hard to differentiate the highlights from the chaff.
60
Half esoteric and half essential, The Powers That B is comprised of Niggas on the Moon, a strange, short album where guest Björk was sampled as her vocals collided with Death Grips' own MC Ride, and Jenny Death, a more traditional Death Grips LP which sounds like where they were heading, rather than just outtakes and leftovers.
TPTB is currently the monst underrated album of 2015... Holy shit, fuck PTFK amiright?
NotM= 8.5
JD=10
Modern Classic... it'll be too late to take things back in 2020 when this becomes the symbol of a fuckin' decade.
NotM= 8.5
JD=10
Modern Classic... it'll be too late to take things back in 2020 when this becomes the symbol of a fuckin' decade.
madness
chaos in the brain
yea, pretty much sums it up. those out-of-body-experience beats, rhymes, riffs...
you either love it or you hate it
chaos in the brain
yea, pretty much sums it up. those out-of-body-experience beats, rhymes, riffs...
you either love it or you hate it
"N*ggas On The Moon" and "Jenny Death" seem like two unrelated projects at first. The former, an electronic Bjork inspired project, is really spacey and abstract. It doesn't have any apparent destination and comes of as a collection of singles rather than an album. The latter is a punk rock inspired riot that is louder and more chaotic than anything else in the DG discography.
Disc One: N*ggas On The Moon
Disc one doesn't work very well without context of the entire album ... read more
Disc One: N*ggas On The Moon
Disc one doesn't work very well without context of the entire album ... read more
I've finally decided to rate the two albums together again because they've grown on me so much that I just can't help but rate both a 100, I'll still show the separate reviews for them tho:
Disc 1: respected individuals on the moon
This fucking thing needed like 6 months to fully click on me but god damn, this the best Death Grips albums of their discography and actually one of my favourite albums period. This is mind fuckingly amazing
Disc 2: Jenny Death
I fucking love the rock elements ... read more
Disc 1: respected individuals on the moon
This fucking thing needed like 6 months to fully click on me but god damn, this the best Death Grips albums of their discography and actually one of my favourite albums period. This is mind fuckingly amazing
Disc 2: Jenny Death
I fucking love the rock elements ... read more
death grips had a mediocre album in 2013 in government plates. when niggas on the moon was individually released in 2014, it made everyone unsure of how jenny death would sound. jenny death is for sure the stronger half of this LP, i like to think that niggas is just an 8 track intro to the best part of the project. tptb has some of the best production that death grips has had since the money store, and the added instruments included in jenny death change their sound. i'm hoping that their ... read more
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #2 | / | The Needle Drop |
| #75 | / | Rough Trade |
MISC LISTS
| #16 | / | Rolling Stone (Rap) |
| #34 | / | Pigeons & Planes (First Half) |
| #40 | / | SPIN (Hip Hop) |
| / | Rolling Stone (First Half) |
Track List
Disc 1: niggas on the moon
- Up My Sleeves
- Billy Not Really
- Black Quarterback
- Say Hey Kid
- Have a Sad Cum BB
- Fuck Me Out
- Voila
- Big Dipper
Disc 2: jenny death
- I Break Mirrors With My Face in the United States
- Inanimate Sensation
- Turned Off
- Why a Bitch Gotta Lie
- PSS PSS
- The Powers That B
- Beyond Alive
- Centuries of Damn
- On GP
- Death Grip 2.0
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Listen to Death Grips’ New Song With Shrek Director 
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Death Grips Share Video for New Song “Flies“ 
Added on: January 4, 2015
