CLPPNG, the label debut from Los Angeles rap group clipping. is available now worldwide via Sub Pop “Album of the Week” & “Body & Blood”
video premiere via ‘Stereogum’ CLPPNG, the label debut from Los Angeles noise rap group clipping., is now available worldwide via Sub Pop. The album is led by the singles “Work Work” (feat. Cocc Pistol Cree) and “Body & Blood,”along with highlights “Tonight” (feat. Gangsta Boo), “Summertime” (feat. King T), and “Or Die” (feat. Guce). CLPPNG was produced by the group, mixed by Steve Kaplan and mastered by Brian “Big Bass” Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles. In celebration of the album’s release, clipping. has put together a free mix for fans featuring some of their favorite tracks, which you can listen to here. You can now watch “Body & Blood,” the intense new video directed by Patrick Kennelly. The NSFW visual premiered via Stereogum, who call it “a video that matches the track’s ferocious bluntness with striking, sometimes harrowing images of the human body(see June 11th video premiere).” Stereogum also selected CLPPNG as it’s “Album of the Week,” and says, “...Where midcity largely belonged to the brick-through-window school of track construction, CLPPNG pulls at least 14 different moods into its 14 tracks. For every squirming, intense burst of synthetic viscera like “Body & Blood” or “Inside Out,” there’s something like the single “Work Work,” an eerie and insinuating piece of music that owes some of its tingling texture to Steve Reich or early Aphex Twin. And for all their experimental impulses, clipping., in their press releases but also in their music, make it very clear that they consider themselves a rap group, not an ongoing comment on the statement of rap or whatever. They toy a bit with the genre’s conventions, but they also hear the genre as one that’s big and inclusive enough for whatever horrible noises they come up with. And they’re right. Rap has always been a more fluid and advanced form of music than its detractors, or even some of its devotees, are willing to believe, and it damn sure has room for these guys (see June 10th feature).” clipping.’s previously announced 2014 European and North American summer tour dates in support ofCLPPNG have been extended. The tour currently spans Monday, June 11th in Moscow, RU at Powerhouse through Friday, August 22nd in Philadelphia, PA at Union Transfer. There will be additional live dates announced shortly. What people are saying about CLPPNG:
“Let the band and album names be a warning for this industrial act featuring copious rapping. You are about to receive rough treatment, heavily stylized...It's all a grand experiment, an anomaly, a freak thing.” [First Listen] - NPR Music "Hip-hop is headed to noisier terrain, and the Los Angeles trio does Kanye and Death Grips one better by recording with actual noises..." [10 Artists You Need To Know] - Rolling Stone "CLPPNG is the work of hip hop auteurs delivering the shock of the new." [Review, 4/5] - MOJO "It's only so often that a hip-hop group comes along with something that could be described as truly unique. This is a testament to LA trio clipping., who can legitimately boast an original sound." [Review, 8/ 10] - CLASH "Scalding second from LA avant-rap trio." [Review, 8/ 10] UNCUT “clipping's nightmare is riveting, particularly during its sweat-inducing peak 'Get Up', which uses an alarm clock as a beat underneath breakneck verses.” [Review, 8/10] - NME “CLPPNG...exists to open up boundaries, kick ordinary in the teeth. Daveed Diggs leads, with Willian Hutson and Jonathan Snipes providing cutting production that pendulum swings between deft minimalism and heart-stealing punches.” [Album Premiere] - This Is Fake DIY "I think they topped what they did with Midcity;...Probably the most creative hip hop album I'm going to hear this year." [Review, 9/10] - The Needle Drop "Leave your notions of what you think hip-hop should be at the door and let clipping. introduce you into the post-Yeezus world of alternative hip-hop" - The 405 “The California rap trio draws on a range of rebellious genres — most evidently gangsta rap and severe electronic and tape music — but mixes them with a scientist’s precision. It is the illusion of chaos — chaos carefully curated, like Rockwell doing Pollock...CLPPNG is an excellent, beautifully-executed record.” [Review, 8 /10] - Tiny Mix Tapes
"Clocking in at nearly an hour, the Adderall-bought-off-the-street raps of MC Daveed Diggs—too fast, too scary, and too weird for your average hip-hop head—are only matched by the production, and that production is a killer. If Death Grips is the Father of this newfound punked-up grit-hop and Yeezus is the Son, then clipping. may have very well just staked out a place as Holy Ghost." - Impose
“They’re not ceasing their distinct punk-rap, but they’re offering a new portion of the spectrum. If you found it hard to stomach their previous material, CLPPNG will provide you a rope, from which you can drag yourself into their miscreant lair. Fair warning: they may not let you leave.” [Review, 8.5 / 10] - The Line Of Best Fit “CLPPNG makes a sterling argument for the intersection of noise and hip-hop tropes.” [Review, 8/10] -Drowned in Sound
“...Check the hammering EBM rhythm, sleazy robo-voice and power tools (!) on ‘Body And Blood’. Elsewhere you’ll find minimalist rattlers (‘Summertime’ feat Compton veteran King T), alarm-clock horror-jams (‘Get Up’) and abstract tongue-twisters something akin to labelmates Shabazz Palaces (‘Taking Off’).” [“Body & Blood”] - FACT
Tour Dates
Jun. 11 - Moscow, RU - Powerhouse
Jun. 12 - St. Petersburg, RU - Club Dada
Jun. 13 - 14 - Barcelona, ES - Sonar
Jun. 30 - Sacramento, CA - Witch Room
Jul. 01 - Arcata, CA - Jambalaya
Jul. 03 - Seattle, WA - Columbia City Theater
Jul. 05 - Portland, OR - The Doug Fir Lounge
Jul. 07 - San Francisco, CA - Brick & Mortar Music Hall
Aug. 01- Katowice, PL - Off Festival
Aug. 15 - London, UK - ATP Jabberwocky 2014
Aug. 21 - Washington, DC - Black Cat*
Aug. 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer*
* w/ Shabazz Palaces
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