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Jan 9, 2012What at first appears to be aggression is actually 100 per cent anguish, and the prevailing sense is that, like Black Flag, every ounce of that angst has been funnelled into edge, bone-crunching rigour and the sculpting of their largely unprecedented style into austere angles.
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Jul 6, 2011Exmilitary is an abrasive and traumatic ordeal, rife with production that's on-point but completely jarring at the same time.
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Jan 9, 2012You come away thinking, despite all the aggro, these Death Grips guys must be an awful lot of fun.
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Jan 9, 2012Track-for-track the birth of a new legend? Absolutely.
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Jul 6, 2011From the blood-curdling yells in which the anonymous MC delivers lines about dead cops and human sacrifice, to the positively chilling Charles Manson sample that begins the album, Exmilitary is the real deal, the absolute extent of your parents' worst nightmares when you came home with your first rap album.
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Jul 6, 2011It's still a potentially alienating album: unnerving when you're not on its aggro wavelength, inviting when you are, and transfixing either way, thanks to the aggregate work of Death Grips' core.
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Jul 6, 2011It's a record that's quite open to cynicism--Exmilitary is easy to dismiss as excessive and carelessly noisy. It's going to polarise listeners, but it's useless to criticise it for being so angry and unlistenable because that's Death Grips' prerogative.
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