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Dead Channel Sky

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Dead Channel Sky

Fifth album from the LA-based experimental hip hop trio consisting of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Sub Pop
UK Release date
14/03/2025
US Release date
14/03/2025
  1. 9.0 |   DIY

    It really is an epic masterpiece
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  2. 9.0 |   Clash

    Put on your headphones, plug yourself in and enter clipping.’s immaculately-crafted cyber world
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  3. 8.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Subterranean, cinematic, and viscerally invasive, the tracks on the album undulate and modulate into a much larger and more complex whole: Listen closely, everything is important
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  4. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Dead Channel Sky doesn’t introduce any radical new ideas and rather stays with the source material. However, in times when Gibson’s futures have already aged and some of his villains shape politics, Clipping revoke cyberpunk’s countercultural charge with extraordinary energy
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  5. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    A masterful example of how the textural map of the digital past can easily be overlaid onto the present — and how that age's promise is being paid in full, or rather in empty, right now
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  6. 8.0 |   Dork

    ‘Dead Channel Sky’ isn’t just pushing boundaries – it’s rewriting the entire operating system of what hip-hop can be
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    Dead Channel Sky is clipping. at their most techno-shocked, reconnecting with the nexus of hip-hop and sci-fi fused by pioneers like Afrika Bambaataa in the early '80s
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  8. 7.9 |   Paste Magazine

    On their most immediate and vital album yet, the LA rap trio reimagine a cyberpunk-inspired present and future
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  9. 7.6 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Though it may not match its forebears’ ambition or near-flawless execution, the speculative and nostalgic centrifuge spinning like a catherine wheel at the heart of the record assures listeners of the usual cutting insights, by way of brazen bars and some of the finest storytelling of the group’s career
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  10. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    Despite all its myriad brilliant moments, something keeps you at arm’s length, its grip on your throat light enough that you can tell it wasn’t really ready to grab you yet
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  11. 7.3 |   Beats Per Minute

    It’s a cool and exciting album, but it doesn’t dream of electric sheep
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