Death Grips – The Money Store (CD) (2012) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Death Grips are angry. It’s unclear why. But their thirst for vengeance, their monomaniacal desire to visit fiery destruction on the powers-that-be, is crystal-clear on The Money Store, even if nothing else– where the hell this album came from; who plays which instrument; what the lead singer is yelling about; and what on earth this band of insurgents is doing signing an Epic Records contract with L.A. Reid– makes much sense at all. When playing this album, the only thing I’m sure of is my overwhelming desire to split my forehead open on a cinder block.

The Sacramento group seems to have landed from an alternate planet, or at least an alternate decade when defiantly mutant outfits like this were occasionally given major-label backing. They’ve been persistently tagged as “rap rock” for context, but it’s not a very useful description of their music. For starters, not much of The Money Store scans as rock: It’s confrontational, abrasive, and chaotic, but only one of its 13 tracks includes a remotely guitar-like noise (“I’ve Seen Footage”) and even that turns out to be a bent, sickly synthesizer. Most of the album is an alien swarm of buzzing and sputtering noises. Death Grips’ Zach Hill, a drummer for the fiendishly technical noise-rock band Hella, has also chewed his way through numerous projects, including work with Marnie Stern and Boredoms, and bits of all this float through The Money Store’s wildly unpredictable 41 minutes.

Tracklist:

01. Get Got (2:52)
02. The Fever (Aye Aye) (3:07)
03. Lost Boys (3:06)
04. Blackjack (2:22)
05. Hustle Bones (3:12)
06. I’ve Seen Footage (3:23)
07. Double Helix (2:40)
08. System Blower (3:48)
09. The Cage (3:31)
10. Punk Weight (3:24)
11. Fuck That (2:25)
12. Bitch Please (2:56)
13. Hacker (4:35)

Download:

FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare