Visions of Bodies Being Burned

clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Critic Score
Based on 18 reviews
2020 Ratings: #175 / 871
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2020 Rank: #13
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
The Needle Drop

clipping. somehow manages to top last year's There Existed an Addiction to Blood with a second helping of avant-horrorcore bangers.

90
Loud and Quiet

Throughout, Clipping stun and shock with their most complete work to date, and Visions of Bodies Being Burned proves the group to be as dynamic as they are devastating.

90
Exclaim!

Back with arguably more certified bangers than before, clipping. throws caution to the wind with soul-rending sonics and elite-tier rapping.

88
Sputnikmusic

Visions of Bodies Being Burned ruthlessly pulls at the edges of that world until it falls apart, dissolving back into our own, undoing the illusions its predecessor meticulously created.

85
Under the Radar

Few listening experiences this year are as gripping, visceral, and vivid as Visions of Bodies Being Burned.

80
The Line of Best Fit

Visions of Bodies Being Burned, like its predecessor, is macabre and monstrous in all of the ways that your leering curiousity would have it. It’s a taut exploration of hatred and hostility, one which stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its demonic older brother.

80
The Young Folks

If you are looking for spooky tales in an urban setting, or if you want more of Daveed Diggs’s music in your life, then Visions of Bodies Being Burned and its predecessor There Existed an Addiction to Blood are for you.

80
Northern Transmissions

A direct sequel to 2019’s There Existed an Addiction to Blood, Visions… does what every good sequel should, build upon the strengths of its predecessor and take the established ideas and themes in unexpected and thrilling directions.

80
God Is in the TV

Visions of Bodies Being Burned is remarkably strong given that it’s the second LP Clipping. have released in two years.  They have reinforced the fact that killer hooks and cathartic, emotional passages can be found in the most obscure, creepiest of places.

80
Mojo
"Do you like scary movies?" asks rapper Daveed Diggs, several tracks in. Your answer will define your response to what marks clipping.'s finest refinement yet of their abrasive horror-rap.
80
Clash
‘Visions of Bodies Being Burned’ is an album that will cement clipping.’s reputation as one of the most exciting and visionary groups working in music today, while it might not pack the same punch to the senses as ‘There Existed an Addiction to Blood’ there is plenty to engage with.
80
DIY
They’ve taken all of their most powerful trademarks and pushed them to breaking point, and the result is nothing short of spectacular.
80
No Ripcord

Bodies Being Burned, despite coming out a year later, doesn’t feel like outtakes or leftovers. It’s a sharpening of the ideas introduced on Addiction to Blood, performed with clipping.’s classic graveness which only supports how scary this album can be. 

80
AllMusic

It's a particularly threatening chapter of horrorcore that renders even some of the more severe acts that came before almost cartoonish by comparison.

80
PopMatters

Like the horror films that influenced it, Visions of Bodies Being Burned is a smart, noisy joyride through your worst nightmares, but it's easy to imagine Clipping laughing maniacally while its listeners insist on sleeping with the lights on.

66
Paste
Clipping. is an incredibly innovative and talented group, especially in creating entire worlds within their songs, but at their most inhibited, they come off as try-hard.
60
Pitchfork

Visions of Bodies Being Burned, like There Existed an Addiction to Blood, is a clear homage to the horrorcore canon, so it’s necessarily a pastiche. But it’s disappointing how academic the record’s sense of terror is.

49
Beats Per Minute

Where There Existed an Addiction to Blood seemed to take the listener down a spiral of harsh violence and vaguely interconnected moments of supernatural terror, Visions of Bodies Being Burned just feels lost.

Chode
90

Lo-Fi Hip Hop beats to Torture/Kill to

BradTasteMusic
96

This is one of the most effective Horror-core albums I have ever heard, while also being the catchiest.

I feel like Horror-core is such a balancing act, and most of the time I hate it. It’s been done time and time again like a terrible slasher film. This is more like... an amazing psychological horror odyssey. Every song is written to near perfection. The imagery bro... THE IMAGERY IS SO VIVID!!!

Bro this is just 52 minutes of pure adrenaline. It is one of the best balancing acts I ... read more

PipePanic
97

Patient #4 Test Results:

Description: Locked in a lockdown facility, a patient, who previously listened to the album ‘There Existed an Addiction to Blood’ by clipping. and was found with three dead bodies of his roommates, has been located and contained after murdering the last therapist he saw. Here is the recorded conversation between him and the head of the mental health department. Names have been erased to protect the innocent.

Doctor: OK. I’m going to ask you how you ... read more

empanada970
83

osea está bien el álbum, pero no me veo a mi mismo escuchándolo de manera casual, pero como experiencia pues está interesante

HYDRODOLPHIN51
99

I never got around to listening to this cus I listened to CLPPING and didn’t think anything could be better than that. IT CAN THIS IS SO DARK AND COOL

Jeromebaby
100

Perfect album. Doubles down on the sound from the last album in the best way possible

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Added on: August 26, 2020