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Apr 23, 2012The Money Store thrills like no other set heard this year.
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May 8, 2012Excoriating as Burnett and Hill are, the real abrasive is Flatlander.
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May 16, 2012The Money Store might be the very definition of acquired taste, and will most likely alienate the vast majority who attempt to give it a spin, but it's undeniably an extraordinary record.
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Apr 26, 2012Cynics might call it selling out or betrayal, but the convenience of bringing Death Grips' innovative and destructive sound to a potentially wider audience is, at the very least, a positive thing.
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Apr 24, 2012It's all dizzying and overwhelming, but the sheer brute strength of The Money Store stays tempered by a pervasive, unbridled sense of creativity.
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Apr 23, 2012It's hyper real hip-hop made just in time for the end of the world.
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Apr 24, 2012Death Grips appeals to the knuckle-dragging troglodyte and the smirking smart kid in us: thick-headed goonery and bookish, viscera-free nerdiness, making beautifully misanthropic music together.
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May 1, 2012Even its bleakest sentiments and harshest sounds invigorate.
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May 7, 2012It provides the kind of visceral excitement absent in so many of those other albums.
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MojoJul 18, 2012From the second opener Get Got's frantic arpeggiations synths kick-in there's little let-up on a mind-mugging set so fresh even Delia Smith can't test its flavour. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012The relentless macho intensity would be oppressive were Hill and Morin not having so much fun pillaging everything from punk to crunk. [Jun 2012, p.100]
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May 8, 2012The Money Store fits into modern hip-hop like a square peg on fire, a 40-minute straitjacket tantrum of vein-popping, slow-flow barks closer to Helmet's Page Hamilton than Harlem's Charles Hamilton.
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UncutMay 2, 2012This, to paraphrase Burnett, just tore 2012 a new one. [Jun 2012, p.71]
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May 1, 2012This is gritty, grimy, hardcore hip-hop, as nasty as it wants to be.
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Apr 27, 2012The Money Store is an important record that's also compelling, loaded with kinetic blows against the empire and fully stuffed with that attractive maverick spirit.
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Apr 26, 2012A soup of electronic interference, exhausting percussion and smothering bass-cloud. It's stultifying like a bad case of screen fatigue; tangled and sparking - the sound of frazzled, short-fusing nerve ends.
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Apr 25, 2012An album that's incredibly incendiary and challenging (while still entertaining).
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Apr 23, 2012The Money Store is Death Grips's next move, and they sound surprisingly ready to engage a wider audience.
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Apr 23, 2012Death Grips achieve the density and intensity of several Bomb Squads, Public Enemy's famous production wing.
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Apr 24, 2012This is punk rock with a hip-hop face-lift, and the merger here is equally trippy ("Get Got") and noisily belligerent ("System Blower").
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Apr 24, 2012Death Grips might not match Exmilitary for style points, but the indelible image of them playing this for label bigwigs is one for the ages.
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The WireJul 24, 2012Their debut album is even more extreme. [May 2012, p.57]
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Apr 24, 2012While it's more "mainstream" musically, its subtlety will still melt faces.
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Apr 23, 2012The simple fact about Death Grips is they will divide audiences. Some will take to their hardcore pandering. Others will scuttle back to their FM radio stations.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 397 out of 440
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Mixed: 18 out of 440
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Negative: 25 out of 440
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