pitchfork has some terrible reviews but this one was exceptionally bad, they judge albums based on what type of album an artist should be making as apposed to actual criticism on the album and feedback to help improve the next artists album
I swear pitchfork has some kind of contractual obligation to be contrarian dipshits in 95% of their reviews. In almost every single major or semi-major label release their ranking is a noticeable outlier. I get that sometimes certain critics differ but it’s a pattern that appears over and over and over again. They gave Splendor and Misery a 5.3 for Christ’s sake. I feel like they exist purely to keep any given album’s Metacritic rating from being too high. It’s also clear that there’s an editorial bias against certain artists. Just a dogshit publication outside of their niche indie reviews.
02:18 - Intro 03:01 - Say The Name - Wytchboard (Interlude) 04:14 - '96 Neve Campbell 05:04 - Something Underneath 05:27 - Make Them Dead 06:16 - She Bad - Invocation (Interlude) 06:51 - Pain Everyday 7:11 - Check The Lock 7:37 - Looking Like Meat - Drove (Interlude) 8:31 - Eaten Alive 9:18 - Body for the Pile 9:48 - Enlacing 10:30 - Secret Piece
2020 scores: 0/10: 1 - [ Green Day - Father of All ] 1/10: 1 - [ Sam Hunt - Southside ] 2/10: 0 3/10: 10 4/10: 16 5/10: 33 6/10: 25 7/10: 42 8/10: 40 9/10: 6 - Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter - Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell - Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? - Blu & Exile - Miles - Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2 EP - clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned 10/10: 0 [NOT GOOD/10]: 8 - [ Justin Bieber - Changes ] - [ Lil Baby - My Turn] - [ Joyner Lucas - ADHD ] - [ Danzig Sings Elvis ] - [ Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2 ] - [ G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here ] - [ Glass Animals - Dreamland ] - [ Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall ] IT'S GOOD/10 (from fantano channel): 6 - [ Disclosure - Ecstasy ] - [ Haru Nemuri - Lovetheism ] - [ Dirty Projectors - Windows Open Ep ] - [ Dirty Projectors - Flight Tower ] - [ Jockstrap - Wicked City ] - [ Slauson Malone - Vergangenheitsbewältigung ] EP review: 2 - [ Little Simz - Drop 6 ] - [ RMR - Drug Dealing Is a Lost Art ] Classics: 5 - [ Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope ] - [ Talk Talk - Laughing Stock ] - [ Converge - Jane Doe ] - [ My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade ] - [ Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury ] Custom scores: 2 - [ Gunna - Wunna ] -Ω/10 - [ Trapt - Shadow Work ] -😤/10 Second take: 1 - [ Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ] - 6/10 "Controversial": 25 - [ Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By ] =============> 5/10 - [ Tame Impala - The Slow Rush ] ==================> 6/10 - [ Grimes - Miss Anthropocene ] ===================> 4/10 - [ Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake ] =====================> 4/10 - [ Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer] ===============> 5/10 - [ Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 ]====================> 4/10 - [ Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud ] ====================> 4/10 - [ Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters ] =============> 7/10 - [ Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris ] =================> 6/10 - [ Dance Gavin Dances Afterburner] ================> 4/10 - [ Future - High Off Life ] =========================> 3/10 - [ Yung Lean - Starz ] ============================> 5/10 - [ Khruangbin - Mordechai ] =======================> 3/10 - [ Hum - Inlet ] =================================> 5/10 - [ MIKE - Weight of the World ] ====================> 4/10 - [ Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald ] =====================> 3/10 - [ Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today ] ===========> 6/10 - [ Glass Animals' Dreamland ] ====================> NOT GOOD - [ Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death ] ================> 4/10 - [ Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song ] ==================> 6/10 - [ Declan McKenna - Zeros ] ======================>5/10 - [ Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall ] =======> NOT GOOD - [ Deftones - Ohms ] ============================> 3/10 - [Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension ] =================> 6/10 - [ Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams ] ==================> 4/10 - [ Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine ] =================> 5/10 Cal cameos: 32 - Green Day - Father of All - Drake - Dark Lane Demo Tapes - Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open - Umbra Vitae - Shadow of Life - Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2 - Ka - Descendants of Cain - Future - High Off Life - Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now - Gunna - Wunna - The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form - Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B - KSI - Dissimulation - Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM - Lady Gaga - Chromatica - Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists - Run the Jewels - RTJ4 - Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi - Lil Yachty - Lil Boat 3 - Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour - Baauer - Planet's Mad - HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III - Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? - G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here - Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways - Logic - No Pressure - The Killers - Imploding the Mirage - Disclosure - Energy - Katy Perry - Smile - The Flaming Lips - American Head - Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams - BLACKPINK - The Album- Reason - New Beginnings This is the 200th review of 2020
Pitchfork are such clowns. It's like all the reviewers need the album they're reviewing to be trendy and well liked by the public immediately, no mixed reception. It's horrendous.
All memes aside you really are a great reviewer you’ve but me on to a lot of great music out there and you’ve changed the way I listen to music at times I do disagree with some of your takes which is ok i appreciate what you do keep the grind up my guy💯
I'm so confused... Guess I don't know how to process a serious non-meme commentary anymore. Thank god for the guy that wrote "unsubscribed" below. I was almost freaking out 😖
It’s kind of surreal to see the Cosmogramma art still featured in so many of your videos because it was the review of that album that introduced me to this channel.
“Eaten Alive” sounds like Daveed rapping over the Hannibal Tv show soundtrack. The bit at the end is basically anytime Will Graham sees something with antlers.
Jonathan Snipes did say in the clipping. episode of What’s In My Bag that he’s a huge fan of Hannibal’s composer so that probably isn’t that coincidental to be honest. cool shit.
@@En_Joshi-Godrez midcity was their first, didn't know it wasn't on streaming, it's a cool album tho, if you like clipping you should defo check it out
Yes! I got into them a month or so after Hamilton came out on Disney+, and I've been hyper addicted. Daveed is now in my top 5 rappers list. Dude is a MONSTER.
ryuman757 it’s funny people see Hamilton and think he’s PHENOMENAL, when Guns and Ships is probably the slowest bars he’s ever spit. I’m not saying it’s not good, I’m in love with Hamilton and everything about it, but I love when people find out the other magnificent stuff he can do.
Aint a ton of rap songs in 7/4 or 7/8 time. one of the reasons I fucking love these guys, they always explore new approaches to their genre and push boundaries very effectively imo
They really done did it. I would agree this album is a 9, no doubt. So incredible, it’s distinct from its predecessor by being more in your face and brutal over all. I’d actually say that TEAATB might be a 10. It’s my favorite album of 2019 and this has a big chance of making it into my top 3 of 2020. Shoutout Clipping, they’re on a crazy run
I prefer "There Existed An Addiction To Blood" but I think we can all agree that the way that these two albums came within a year of each other is legendary.
It was supposed to be even earlier, like back in Q1, but they delayed it due to circumstances. I think it works better coming out so close to Halloween though.
@@athingamagoothingy1381 enlacing is great but I can't deny even thought it's the most obvious pick. "nothing is safe" is so fucking amazing. I'll never forget my first listen.
Candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned
Coming back to this review after finally listening to the record for myself. For these lesser-known albums and artists, I automatically have the stigma of assuming it’s just pretentious artsy-fartsy music (which I’m trying to get rid of), but this album blew me away. I would agree wholeheartedly that this a solid 9/10. Perfect for the Halloween season as well.
@@StringierHail56 I don't think Midcity did either personally but every album has been *atleast* an 8 or 9 at the lowest, one of the best hip-hip groups in the past 20 years.
your review of there was an addiction to blood was why I picked them up and listened to them so fucking much like its music and sound design porn for us audio nerds- the tricks the heavy layers of subtext in both lyrics and musical choices the atmosphere and it never skimps out, I dont like horror core normally but this shit actually scares me in a good way its like when I played silent hillt he first time up to that point I was always bored with horror and then I wasnt- then I was in it.
AOTY for me, hands down. Crazy to think clipping has given us more of the same without ever getting cringe or boring. Two years in a row they take the cake for me. Can’t wait for that interview.
I'm intrigued what would have tipped the scales for you to award a 10 here Anthony? What was missing, cause this whole project is wall to wall excellence for me.
no it's not that they couldn't get the rights, they did actually that's why marvin gaye, who was sampled on mind playing tricks on me and thus owns part of that song, also owns like 1/4th of say the name despite him literally not being on the song at all, cuz it sampled a song that he wuz sampled in. geto boys were totally cool with the interpolation, the problem is there was never any acapella produced for mind playing tricks on me. that's the reason why it's a pitch shifted recording of daveed and not a sample.
Yah moral of the story is fuck sampling laws cuz fucking Issac Hayes owns more of Say the Name then they do. Geto Boys themselves were chill apparently and Daveed facetimed with Scarface
I've been having a harder time getting into this one honestly? The songs have all been kind of blending into each other for me in a way that Existed didn't. Clippings music isn't always immediate though, I probably just need to sit with it a bit Edit: I've listened to it more and it's now probably my favorite Clipping album
There's a lot more empty space on this album than the last one. I felt similar my first listen, but then certain things started popping out in different tracks and I just keep hearing new things on every listen.
I feel you man, I can never get into albums on the first 2 listens I was kinda disappointed on first listen, addiction to blood was the same. But after sticking with it, some tracks start standing out and now i'm at the point where I really love it, think it's just a matter of letting it absorb, especially with clipping haha
The interludes play into this album like crazy; Looking Like Meat > Drove > Eaten Alive is a cheeky add to the overall aesthetic The Wytchboard interlude > 96 Neve Campbell so simple, but adds so so much.
Say the Name, Check the Lock, Pain Everyday, and She Bad are some of my favorite Clipping songs ever. It's incredibly hard to choose since 99% of what they make is near perfect, but the beats and flows and lyrics on these are just perfect. Pain Everyday is by far the darkest, grimmest, most depressing fucking thing I've ever listened to, and it slaps hard. The idea that the dead are just these bitter, angry, envious, murderous lost souls who just waste away in purgatory and hate the living for the simple fact that we live is chilling. And Something Underneath brings out such Lovecraftian vibes, like the elder gods are about to awaken and the entire universe knows it's fucked.
that's cuz this and TEAATB were originally supposed to be a single album. the decision to split it into two albums was made after they had already made every track. so since it's part 2 of TEAATB that's why there's no story.
These two LPs span a total of 4 records, the 8 sides are labeled from side A to Side H, so Clipping are obviously treating it as one project, so you got one project here with one story
As someone whow grew up a horror movie/horror media nerd kid (but abandoned it in recent years) this album brinks back a lot of nice nostalgia-esque vibes apart from just being really good music. moving, energetic, the ambient noise bits like the (what I assume is) insnane door fist smacking on 96' Neve Campbell for example just work really well. yeah i feel this thing
It genuinely fucks with me, almost certainly as intended, that some samples used here are samples from, or clearly from the same source as those on There Existed an Addiction to Blood, but they don’t correspond in any neat way. One example is that Check the Lock begins with a different version of the sample from He Dead, but She Bad, which has a title reminiscent of He Dead, shares very little with its predecessor. That irks me so much, which I assume is what clipping were going for.
Candlesticks in the dark, visions of flannels being earned.
I feel like you’ve been working on this pun for a long time. Well done mr okayest
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Wow great review Anthony, I agree with the score and surprisingly we agree on the same best and worst tracks as well.
Can't wait to listen to it
they had us in the first half not gonna lie
ight this was a good one
See you in chat!
damn okay that was good i'll admit it😂
*Based*
Least fave track is Looking Like Meat? Of course Melon of course.
he still has flashbacks from eating bacon, give him a break
@@gabrielmontanhole peppa pig album review throwback
Even I liked that track and I think Ho99o9 is terrible
I think he legit did that solely on vegan principles. lol
@William Magee yeah. also disagree.
I swear this album keeps getting better at every listen and that's insane. That shouldn't be possible.
Huge gore warning for the video, guys, he pulls out his own teeth and tapes them up on the green screen instead of putting up the album cover.
needs more likes
Goated comment
Teethtony Teethtano here
Hahahaha
Best album cover in the game.
Let's talk about clipping that mustache
Fuck that was good
Damn
you mean that pizza hut logo on his lip?
Josh Joseph hey you know the meme
Yes
Weird that the review ended so abruptly at 3:51 I was really starting to get excited for this album.
Underrated comment
Pitchfork gave this a 6, the prior one a 4.5. I know music is subjective but this I can't understand.
Pitchfork ain't shit
if pitchfork gives their next album a 7 then the next album will be a 10 for fantano
pitchfork has some terrible reviews but this one was exceptionally bad, they judge albums based on what type of album an artist should be making as apposed to actual criticism on the album and feedback to help improve the next artists album
Pitchfork has been too far up their own ass for years.
I swear pitchfork has some kind of contractual obligation to be contrarian dipshits in 95% of their reviews. In almost every single major or semi-major label release their ranking is a noticeable outlier. I get that sometimes certain critics differ but it’s a pattern that appears over and over and over again. They gave Splendor and Misery a 5.3 for Christ’s sake. I feel like they exist purely to keep any given album’s Metacritic rating from being too high. It’s also clear that there’s an editorial bias against certain artists. Just a dogshit publication outside of their niche indie reviews.
This thing is good holy
album was so good it really _did_ clip my headphones, true story
@@LeBeautiful man, you everywhere
yes
Yeah clipping never misses
yessir them samples hitting
Melon, it's unprofessional to wear the same shirt two days in a row.
02:18 - Intro
03:01 - Say The Name
- Wytchboard (Interlude)
04:14 - '96 Neve Campbell
05:04 - Something Underneath
05:27 - Make Them Dead
06:16 - She Bad
- Invocation (Interlude)
06:51 - Pain Everyday
7:11 - Check The Lock
7:37 - Looking Like Meat
- Drove (Interlude)
8:31 - Eaten Alive
9:18 - Body for the Pile
9:48 - Enlacing
10:30 - Secret Piece
You’d have given this a ten if Diggs got you a part in Hamilton
2020 scores:
0/10: 1
- [ Green Day - Father of All ]
1/10: 1
- [ Sam Hunt - Southside ]
2/10: 0
3/10: 10
4/10: 16
5/10: 33
6/10: 25
7/10: 42
8/10: 40
9/10: 6
- Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
- Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell
- Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
- Blu & Exile - Miles
- Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2 EP
- clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
10/10: 0
[NOT GOOD/10]: 8
- [ Justin Bieber - Changes ]
- [ Lil Baby - My Turn]
- [ Joyner Lucas - ADHD ]
- [ Danzig Sings Elvis ]
- [ Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2 ]
- [ G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here ]
- [ Glass Animals - Dreamland ]
- [ Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall ]
IT'S GOOD/10 (from fantano channel): 6
- [ Disclosure - Ecstasy ]
- [ Haru Nemuri - Lovetheism ]
- [ Dirty Projectors - Windows Open Ep ]
- [ Dirty Projectors - Flight Tower ]
- [ Jockstrap - Wicked City ]
- [ Slauson Malone - Vergangenheitsbewältigung ]
EP review: 2
- [ Little Simz - Drop 6 ]
- [ RMR - Drug Dealing Is a Lost Art ]
Classics: 5
- [ Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope ]
- [ Talk Talk - Laughing Stock ]
- [ Converge - Jane Doe ]
- [ My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade ]
- [ Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury ]
Custom scores: 2
- [ Gunna - Wunna ] -Ω/10
- [ Trapt - Shadow Work ] -😤/10
Second take: 1
- [ Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ] - 6/10
"Controversial": 25
- [ Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By ] =============> 5/10
- [ Tame Impala - The Slow Rush ] ==================> 6/10
- [ Grimes - Miss Anthropocene ] ===================> 4/10
- [ Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake ] =====================> 4/10
- [ Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer] ===============> 5/10
- [ Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 ]====================> 4/10
- [ Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud ] ====================> 4/10
- [ Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters ] =============> 7/10
- [ Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris ] =================> 6/10
- [ Dance Gavin Dances Afterburner] ================> 4/10
- [ Future - High Off Life ] =========================> 3/10
- [ Yung Lean - Starz ] ============================> 5/10
- [ Khruangbin - Mordechai ] =======================> 3/10
- [ Hum - Inlet ] =================================> 5/10
- [ MIKE - Weight of the World ] ====================> 4/10
- [ Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald ] =====================> 3/10
- [ Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today ] ===========> 6/10
- [ Glass Animals' Dreamland ] ====================> NOT GOOD
- [ Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death ] ================> 4/10
- [ Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song ] ==================> 6/10
- [ Declan McKenna - Zeros ] ======================>5/10
- [ Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets to My Downfall ] =======> NOT GOOD
- [ Deftones - Ohms ] ============================> 3/10
- [Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension ] =================> 6/10
- [ Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams ] ==================> 4/10
- [ Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine ] =================> 5/10
Cal cameos: 32
- Green Day - Father of All
- Drake - Dark Lane Demo Tapes
- Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
- Umbra Vitae - Shadow of Life
- Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2
- Ka - Descendants of Cain
- Future - High Off Life
- Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
- Gunna - Wunna
- The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
- Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B
- KSI - Dissimulation
- Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
- Lady Gaga - Chromatica
- Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists
- Run the Jewels - RTJ4
- Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
- Lil Yachty - Lil Boat 3
- Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour
- Baauer - Planet's Mad
- HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
- Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
- G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here
- Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Logic - No Pressure
- The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
- Disclosure - Energy
- Katy Perry - Smile
- The Flaming Lips - American Head
- Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams
- BLACKPINK - The Album- Reason - New Beginnings
This is the 200th review of 2020
Woah.
How the fuck did he do 200 reviews in less than a year
Trippie Redd’s Pegasus also got a 1/10
Bro where’d you go
Damn, this was literally one song away from a 10.
And his least fav is my fav :(((
I think there was a few more issues then just the one it deserved a 8 or 9 but it would've taken more then the 1 to make it a 10 imo
It was only 9 hours should have been 10
m an that song is hella good tho
same thing happened with IGOR, rip.
clipping is so far ahead of the creativity curve it’s ridiculous and I am here for it 😄😄😄
No way you like clipping. as well?
@@PLAGUE-KARM I love them! Big fan since midcity!
Strong 9! Closest to a 10 we will probably get this year
might get new kendrick or frank ocean but there's a chance this will still be better. light 9 for me
Imo RTJ4 and Fetch the Bolt Cutters are the closest things to 10s this year
@@fakebird000 This is better than both of those imo
@@fakebird000 I was relatively disappointed by RTJ4 and I have no idea why
@@acurlyboi2944 my main problem with the new RTJ is that it’s just too similar to all the others that it’s kind of disappinting
Pitchfork-6
Fantano-9
Fantano that's why we love you
There existed an addiction to blood:
Pitchfork: 4
Fantano: 8
Pitchfork are such clowns. It's like all the reviewers need the album they're reviewing to be trendy and well liked by the public immediately, no mixed reception. It's horrendous.
All memes aside you really are a great reviewer you’ve but me on to a lot of great music out there and you’ve changed the way I listen to music at times I do disagree with some of your takes which is ok i appreciate what you do keep the grind up my guy💯
I'm so confused... Guess I don't know how to process a serious non-meme commentary anymore. Thank god for the guy that wrote "unsubscribed" below. I was almost freaking out 😖
It’s kind of surreal to see the Cosmogramma art still featured in so many of your videos because it was the review of that album that introduced me to this channel.
you mean Cosmogramma vinyl? those arent just pieces of cardboard with album covers on them lmao
@@urioberlander7022 vinyl covers can be referred to as art bro
@@urioberlander7022 no I meant art, as in album art. I know they’re vinyls. This is showcasing the album art, not the fucking disc.
@@urioberlander7022 smoothbrain moment
@@stevenjump aight no need to get upset buddy, just never heard of a vinyl with a disc inside reffered to as art
“Eaten Alive” sounds like Daveed rapping over the Hannibal Tv show soundtrack. The bit at the end is basically anytime Will Graham sees something with antlers.
Oh shit, you are right.
holy fuck i cant unhear that why did you do this
Jonathan Snipes did say in the clipping. episode of What’s In My Bag that he’s a huge fan of Hannibal’s composer so that probably isn’t that coincidental to be honest. cool shit.
@@Iamthedeception Called him the best composer in the game right now IIRC.
The instant I heard it, I instantly was like "that's Hannibal to a T". No complaints, they worked it well
This is the spiritual successor to Logan Paul’s “Videos of Bodies Being Hung”
LOL
Conceptual artist and snuff filmmaker Logan Paul
Dude!
damn thats good
"Hanging out in a park
Videos a body being hung"
Cant believe he gave them a 9, the curse of the 8s is finally broken!
CLPPNG got a 9
Their debut got a 9.
@@En_Joshi-Godrez nope, clppng is not a debut
@@bobi5651 is the first album they have on Spotify. What was their first lp?
@@En_Joshi-Godrez midcity was their first, didn't know it wasn't on streaming, it's a cool album tho, if you like clipping you should defo check it out
Flannels lit in the dark, visions of melons being burned
Melons lit in the dark, visions of flannels being burned?
@@GatheringFirewood sure
Literally my dreams
Melon playing tricks on me.
Literally just got into them recently, on top of watching Blindspotting. Daveed Diggs is an absolutely insane lyricist/storyteller.
Blindspotting gets so slept on.
what a fantastic movie blindspotting is. daveed is talented as hell
Yes! I got into them a month or so after Hamilton came out on Disney+, and I've been hyper addicted. Daveed is now in my top 5 rappers list. Dude is a MONSTER.
ryuman757 it’s funny people see Hamilton and think he’s PHENOMENAL, when Guns and Ships is probably the slowest bars he’s ever spit. I’m not saying it’s not good, I’m in love with Hamilton and everything about it, but I love when people find out the other magnificent stuff he can do.
Enlacing, alone, makes the album a 10 for me. Absolute banger.
it took a bit but the song grew on me
Had the strongest verses on the album too
Aint a ton of rap songs in 7/4 or 7/8 time. one of the reasons I fucking love these guys, they always explore new approaches to their genre and push boundaries very effectively imo
Finally a 9, the melon has blessed us
Melon gave their album CLPPNG a decent to strong 9 (it ended up with a strong 9).
@Kormak, Maker of Salad Miles by Blu & Exile got a 9 recently
@@tylersquanto8938 Miles was the first hip-hop album this year to earn a 9
You know it’s been rough when we’re celebrating a 9....
@@finlaytroughton4180 It’s not like 10s were super common before 2020... so I don’t really see your point
They really done did it. I would agree this album is a 9, no doubt. So incredible, it’s distinct from its predecessor by being more in your face and brutal over all. I’d actually say that TEAATB might be a 10. It’s my favorite album of 2019 and this has a big chance of making it into my top 3 of 2020. Shoutout Clipping, they’re on a crazy run
But I’ll be danged if Looking Like Meat is not one of the hardest songs I’ve heard this year
Album of the year for me, clipping just does not miss
thank you anthony for finally givin the hamilton soundtrack the score it deserves
Lol
10/10 REVIEW IT AGAIN
10/10 REVIEW IT AGAIN
10/10 REVIEW IT AGAIN
Lookin like meat has been disrespected wtf
Melon is vegan tbf
this is a T R A V E S T Y
I know dude lmao... my favorite track!
He just hates ho99o9...
That song is F I L T H. Imo its a nice exercise is how distorted and blown out you can make a “normal” hip hop beat.
I prefer "There Existed An Addiction To Blood" but I think we can all agree that the way that these two albums came within a year of each other is legendary.
They were recorded at the same time
It was supposed to be even earlier, like back in Q1, but they delayed it due to circumstances. I think it works better coming out so close to Halloween though.
I definitely prefer it too, but I'll be damned if Enlacing isn't the best song off both
@@athingamagoothingy1381 enlacing is great but I can't deny even thought it's the most obvious pick. "nothing is safe" is so fucking amazing. I'll never forget my first listen.
@@andrevitalpardue5097 nothing is safe is amazing too, I had it on repeat for a while, but Enlacing is just too good
Candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned candlesticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned
Same
Well if this isn’t a 10 for melon, I don’t think we’re getting one this year /:
maybe if clipping collabs with 100 gecs
Maybe if danny brown decides to grow his dreads back
wrong because he still hasn’t dropped the jean dawson review
Peaceful as Hell was a 12, Melon just had to take 3 points off cos he's straight
Jean Dawson
I’m struggling with how good this LP is. Who knew at 37 I’d find an album I can’t get enough of.
2:59
You don’t need to listen to the album anymore.
Aw come on melon, we all know “less accessible” is code for “a whole lot better.”
This album makes me wanna walk around while swinging my arms round in circles and knocking over glasses of water
Thats it! Thats the feeling
Coming back to this review after finally listening to the record for myself. For these lesser-known albums and artists, I automatically have the stigma of assuming it’s just pretentious artsy-fartsy music (which I’m trying to get rid of), but this album blew me away. I would agree wholeheartedly that this a solid 9/10. Perfect for the Halloween season as well.
I've been listening to this album on repeat. clippin. Is keeping the tradition of spooktober alive
cliiping. manages to impress me with every record, their shit just keeps getting better. I've been spinning this for a week non-stop.
Just give clipping. a 10/10 already!!!
clppng deserved a 10
@@StringierHail56 Splendor and Misery deserved a 10.
@@MintyDarkFinger Fuck it they all deserved 10s (maybe not wriggle tho. I wasn't a huge fan of Our Time)
@@StringierHail56 I don't think Midcity did either personally but every album has been *atleast* an 8 or 9 at the lowest, one of the best hip-hip groups in the past 20 years.
@@StringierHail56 clppng is easily the closest they have to a 10 imo. It’s so fucking dark and the story telling is easily the best
Does any one else agree that Enlacing is one of the best tracks on the album?
Absolutely
One of the best they've ever made tbh
enlacing is probably the best clipping track of all time - although a couple of songs on the self-titled (dominoes, summertime) might come close
GET YOUR ASS DOWN TO THE FLOOOOOR
Sometimes you just have an existential crisis in the club
Can we talk about satisfying the album cover transition at 0:24 was???
Oh damn. This year has been killing it with music in spite of it all.
If anything, covid has let artists really reflect on the world and their life in a way that maybe they couldn't or wouldn't before..
I agree Espically the Slauson Malone EP, such a underated Gem
visions of melons growing hair
This album is so scary and sexy at the same time, I love it
After the last clipping. album, I was so hyped for this LP. clipping. are so talented and underrated fr.
It’s a full LP
EP???
@@artistluke4 i meant LP lol
your review of there was an addiction to blood was why I picked them up and listened to them so fucking much like its music and sound design porn for us audio nerds- the tricks the heavy layers of subtext in both lyrics and musical choices the atmosphere and it never skimps out, I dont like horror core normally but this shit actually scares me in a good way its like when I played silent hillt he first time up to that point I was always bored with horror and then I wasnt- then I was in it.
Clipping has never missed.
Liked the review, but you didn’t have to bully Thomas Jefferson like that
AOTY for me, hands down. Crazy to think clipping has given us more of the same without ever getting cringe or boring. Two years in a row they take the cake for me. Can’t wait for that interview.
You should put subtitles randomly in the review, it’ll be funny
I'm intrigued what would have tipped the scales for you to award a 10 here Anthony? What was missing, cause this whole project is wall to wall excellence for me.
Genuinely amazed that Looking like Meat is your least favorite
that track is up there in their discography, right next to Body and Blood imo
Omg YES I’m new to clipping, and Body & Blood and Looking Like Meat are my top 2 clipping songs so far
Fun fact: they couldn't get the rights to the geto boys sample so it's just a twisted version of Daveed saying it
no it's not that they couldn't get the rights, they did actually that's why marvin gaye, who was sampled on mind playing tricks on me and thus owns part of that song, also owns like 1/4th of say the name despite him literally not being on the song at all, cuz it sampled a song that he wuz sampled in. geto boys were totally cool with the interpolation, the problem is there was never any acapella produced for mind playing tricks on me. that's the reason why it's a pitch shifted recording of daveed and not a sample.
@@chrissyjo420 ah yes you're right! I remember now
Yah moral of the story is fuck sampling laws cuz fucking Issac Hayes owns more of Say the Name then they do. Geto Boys themselves were chill apparently and Daveed facetimed with Scarface
I've been having a harder time getting into this one honestly? The songs have all been kind of blending into each other for me in a way that Existed didn't.
Clippings music isn't always immediate though, I probably just need to sit with it a bit
Edit: I've listened to it more and it's now probably my favorite Clipping album
There's a lot more empty space on this album than the last one. I felt similar my first listen, but then certain things started popping out in different tracks and I just keep hearing new things on every listen.
I feel you man, I can never get into albums on the first 2 listens I was kinda disappointed on first listen, addiction to blood was the same. But after sticking with it, some tracks start standing out and now i'm at the point where I really love it, think it's just a matter of letting it absorb, especially with clipping haha
I feel dumb, the album art was so similar I didn't realise it was a new album
Your mouth is a private investigator and your mustache is his hat.
Dude is obsessed with industrial hip hop
i wouldn’t have ever heard of clipping without this review, thank you for introducing me to one of my favourite artists
The interludes play into this album like crazy;
Looking Like Meat > Drove > Eaten Alive is a cheeky add to the overall aesthetic
The Wytchboard interlude > 96 Neve Campbell so simple, but adds so so much.
drove is such an incredibly creepy interlude.
This was excellent and so was that Open Mike Eagle album, Melon. You sharing your thoughts on it? 👀
2:37 Spittin' them Edgar Allan Poe bars!
Say the Name, Check the Lock, Pain Everyday, and She Bad are some of my favorite Clipping songs ever. It's incredibly hard to choose since 99% of what they make is near perfect, but the beats and flows and lyrics on these are just perfect. Pain Everyday is by far the darkest, grimmest, most depressing fucking thing I've ever listened to, and it slaps hard. The idea that the dead are just these bitter, angry, envious, murderous lost souls who just waste away in purgatory and hate the living for the simple fact that we live is chilling. And Something Underneath brings out such Lovecraftian vibes, like the elder gods are about to awaken and the entire universe knows it's fucked.
'Do I Hate Mars Bars'.
No.
Yes.
Yes
@@yusufhaidarraihan8674 No.
@William Magee No.
Great! What should you review next? Open Mike Eagle, obviously!
If the Track was Named Looking like Tofu this would have been a 10.
no story song on this album, smh my head
Shaking my head my head
that's cuz this and TEAATB were originally supposed to be a single album. the decision to split it into two albums was made after they had already made every track. so since it's part 2 of TEAATB that's why there's no story.
There was a "story" released this year tho
These two LPs span a total of 4 records, the 8 sides are labeled from side A to Side H, so Clipping are obviously treating it as one project, so you got one project here with one story
@@chrissyjo420 sorry dude, just realized I've basically repeated your comment
I had a feeling this would get at least a 9. It’s my AOTY.
So you're saying that without looking like meat this would be a 10?
Shoutout to Clipping! This album earning a Grammy would really help the Grammy's legitimacy tbh
It won’t sadly
Got here by your best albums of 2020. It’s sooooo good! Thanks!
I see no lies. Album of the year.
So happy with this review. This is easily one of clipping.'s best albums, it's amazing
pain everyday is definitely one of the best tracks of the year
Halloween on a Saturday plus new clipping album... yay
candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned......
"Flames ain't shit to a demon"
SAY THE NAME
The high-pitched tone in Body for the Pile gives me a bit of a headache but otherwise this album is awesome
The transition from wytchboard to 96 neve campbell is godlike
Clipping still underrated
glad you're reviewing clipping
I absolutely love their track Body and Blood - anyone else??
When's the OME review dropping??
One of your best reviews this year!
I THINK SO TOO!
:)
Facts
Best album of them since CLPPNG
i back this comment!
awesome review! i love when you get as insightful as this.
if looking like meat is the worst track then it’s a great album
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS REVIEW FOR A MONTH!!! Got that early stream from pre-ordering the LP. Glad Fantano didn't let me down.
I liked it about as much as I liked There Existed an Addiction to Blood, which was a lot.
As someone whow grew up a horror movie/horror media nerd kid (but abandoned it in recent years) this album brinks back a lot of nice nostalgia-esque vibes apart from just being really good music. moving, energetic, the ambient noise bits like the (what I assume is) insnane door fist smacking on 96' Neve Campbell for example just work really well. yeah i feel this thing
This would’ve been a 10 if he wasn’t so avid about veganism
It genuinely fucks with me, almost certainly as intended, that some samples used here are samples from, or clearly from the same source as those on There Existed an Addiction to Blood, but they don’t correspond in any neat way. One example is that Check the Lock begins with a different version of the sample from He Dead, but She Bad, which has a title reminiscent of He Dead, shares very little with its predecessor. That irks me so much, which I assume is what clipping were going for.
YESS WE GOT OUR 6TH 9 BOYS AND GIRLS
I was expecting this video for days now. I'm glad I didn't wait for nothing. AOTY material from clipping once more.
DOES CLIPPING. EVER DISAPPOINT?
Literally never
TND Album of the Year 2020. Calling it.
Well I’ve never heard of these artists. But it certainly sounds unique lol
When Make Them Dead came on I screamed "YES! Back to their Midcity sound!"
Kinda weird to say this would've been a 10 if there was a song about Thomas Jefferson murdering Alexander Hamilton
Lmao
Told my homey this was gonna be a 10 for sure. Your review of Looking Like Meat cost me 5 bucks melon.