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CLPPNG

Second LP from Los Angeles trio consisting of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Sub Pop
UK Release date
09/06/2014
US Release date
24/06/2014
  1. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    CLPPNG may be one of the most exciting and electrifying rap albums of the year
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  2. 9.0 |   The 405

    Subtlety can go miles for a band so cultured in bedlam, so naturally, the more reflective moments of CLPPNG speak just as loudly as the weightier ones
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  3. 8.8 |   Paste Magazine

    The most ambitious and powerful underground hip-hop album to be released this year
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  4. 8.7 |   Earbuddy

    The majority of CLPPNG is so accessible, fun, unique, and thought-provoking that its few faults seem like small potatoes in comparison
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  5. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    If you found it hard to stomach their previous material, CLPPNG will provide you a rope, from which you can drag yourself into their miscreant lair. Fair warning: they may not let you leave
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  6. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    If Kanye's Black Skinhead wasn't feral and intense enough to give you the feels, then LA's clipping are for you
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  7. 8.0 |   The FT

    A bracing collision between avant-rap and mainstream hip-hop
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  8. 8.0 |   Clash

    While it aims to push boundaries, ‘CLPPNG’ does so in a way that demonstrates a love for the music and culture that forms its source material
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  9. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Makes a sterling argument for the intersection of noise and hip-hop tropes
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  10. 8.0 |   NME

    Clipping's nightmare is riveting, particularly during its sweat-inducing peak 'Get Up', which uses an alarm clock as a beat underneath breakneck verses. Wake up, America
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  11. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Clipping and Clppng are examples of hip-hop’s great possibilities
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  12. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Clipping is the work of hip hop auteurs delivering the shock of the new. Print edition only

  13. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Subversive commentary hits home with industrial force. Print edition only

  14. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s the first album of 2014, and the first album in a long while, that seems—well—evil
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  15. 7.0 |   Fact

    A record that’s not quite a paradigm smasher, but a must-hear for anyone who likes their hip-hop weird and with teeth
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  16. 7.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Though lyrically complex, and often lightning fast, Daveed Diggs is deft and acrobatic with his words
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  17. 6.0 |   The Music

    The production is intriguing; this album is not. The killer Intro and Take Off notwithstanding, Diggs has taken the foot off the pedal – and Clppng is clipped as a result
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  18. 5.6 |   Pitchfork

    Overall, CLPPNG is chock full of ideas, and if its failure is due to overambitiousness, well, there are worse ways to fail
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  19. 5.5 |   Beardfood

    Its often boring lyrics and flow protrude like a broken bone through skin
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  20. 5.0 |   All Music

    Even when the songs sound coherent and have some interesting moments, the jarring beats still come on as incessantly aggressive with no actual power, inspiration, or deeper statement driving the noise
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  21. 4.0 |   No Ripcord

    The record lacks vision, direction, clarity. It spreads itself too thin
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