''CLPPNG'' is the debut
studio album by American
hip hop group
clipping. It was released on June 10, 2014, through
Sub Pop
Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the grunge movement. They are oft ...
as the follow-up to their debut mixtape ''
midcity''.
Composition
Thomas Quinlan of ''
Exclaim!
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'' writes that the album sees the group continue their combination of
musique concrète
Musique concrète (; ): " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, wit ...
and
gangsta rap, while deeming it more accessible than their earlier work.
Fred Thomas of
AllMusic
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deems it a harsh album that fuses "noise frequencies, brutally dark beats, and MC Daveed Diggs' unhinged, often ugly lyrical flow."
"Intro" features rapping over a beatless backdrop of
feedback
Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to ''feed back'' into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled ...
reminiscent of
Merzbow
is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by , best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise. Since 1980, Akita has released over 400 recordings and has collaborated with various artists.
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada ...
.
"Dream" features a "ringing bell,
white noise
In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density. The term is used, with this or similar meanings, in many scientific and technical disciplines, ...
and
tape hiss",
while the next track "Get Up" is built solely around the sound of an
alarm clock
An alarm clock (or sometimes just an alarm) is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of individuals at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or short naps; they ar ...
.
The album also features a performance of
John Cage's ''
Williams Mix'' (1951–1953), recorded with Tom Erbe.
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
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2014 debut albums
Sub Pop albums
Clipping. albums
Musique concrète albums
Gangsta rap albums by American artists