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8.5
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The 405
Government Plates, more so than any of their other records, is full on mania, but it's a reflection of the society it is born into
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8.5
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The Quietus
Where No Love Deep Web felt flat and homogenous throughout, Government Plates on the other hand is bursting with kinetic energy and texture, and never focuses on one particular sound for overlong over its economical 36 minute run time
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8.4
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Pitchfork
Government Plates isn’t defined by dissonance, volume, or abrasion so much as discomfort, Death Grips trying to figure out how to advance a sound that won’t stay still
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8.0
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NME
Terrifying and innovative album from the masters of uneasy listening
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8.0
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PopMatters
Death Grips really don’t care what you think about them or their actions. Their creativity is flowing at its peak and they are only concerned with music, and you should be as well
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8.0
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The Skinny
It's at times a challenging listen – even by their standards – but one that further empowers their merciless, self-serving legac
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8.0
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Spin
An album so urgent and pressing that it often foregoes language for feeling, explanations for executions
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8.0
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DIY
The intimidating ferocity rarely lets up, with its uneasy atmosphere pumping through every track with a commendable sense of nihilism
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8.0
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State
A deftly arranged electronic record that attempts, and sometimes manages, to find a missing link between IDM and industrial music
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8.0
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Slant Magazine
This is transgressive art at its rawest and most chaotic, postmodern punk for the millennial age
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
What really gives Government Plates its effect is the sheer lurching uneasiness of it all
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7.5
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7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Government Plates doesn’t strive to be a defining post-Epic statement, but it finds Death Grips fascinated with the possibilities offered by its sound and pushing it breathlessly forward
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7.0
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Fact
Three years on from debut Ex-Military, Death Grips are as vital as music gets
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
This is a rap record, albeit one whose abstracted fury and next-level formalism makes Yeezus sound quaint
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5.0
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5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
This album doesn’t come off as angry, paranoid, schizophrenic, or anything like that. It just comes off as weird
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