clipping. — Visions of Bodies Being Burned

The fourth studio album by clipping. is a big step back from the previous one, in an attempt to bring noise back into the trends on the hip-hop side: the genre had its peak of notoriety about four years ago, when the group was in its first days, and is now in decline. The record sounds like a sequel to "There Existed an Addiction to Blood", it maintains horrorcore themes and an industrial, experimental and dark sound, but annoying, unbearably annoying compared to the one offered in last year's project.

Nothing seems to work as it should. Even pretending that the pioneering bands of this subgenre never existed, the production is never inspired and sounds very bad, it's unpleasant anti-melodic music, coupled with shoddy trap overtones. Most of the effort is delivered sparsely in spoken word, sometimes in rap. The rhythms seem to have been made with cookware, and it also seems that this cookware is sub-brand and excessively cheap, I mean, spending a few dollars more on some decent pans they would have come up with better music, instead of this random, useless, generic and forgettable production. The boys show they have no ideas and are very confused: most of the songs are sensationally annoying, in "Looking Like Meat" they place an annoying anti-melodic rhythm composed of a melodic piano sample almost to compensate for the anti-melody, beat on which the delivery of the rappers is poor.

Even the instrumentals represent the lack of concentration of the trio: in "Invocation (Interlude)" it seems that the boys wanted to steal one of the many songs by Angelo Badalamenti from the "Twin Peaks" soundtrack, then at a certain point, they no longer had the courage to do it: the result is a half sound that says nothing. Then, the album is closed by four minutes of an insignificant instrumental. Pink Dollaz, Cam & China, outclass and overshadow the lead rapper in "'96 Neve Campbell", the girls go too strong and bring a flow dope to the table which is the best thing on the album.

Ultimately, not recommended: there's better material out there, and the clipping. themselves have offered something markedly superior with their previous LP. 4/10.