From The Archive: Death Grips - No Love Deep Web

Death Grips' "No Love Deep Web"  is a deadeye-on-the-train confrontational album that explores what it means to stand in contrast. Released in 2012, the album features the unsubtly aggro and distortion-intensive production of Zach Hill and Andy Morin accompanied by MC Ride's wound-prodding rhapsodizing.

The album opens with "Come Up and Get Me," a track that sets the pace for the rest of the album with a rest-rephrensive flurry. The lyrics touch on ideations of paranoia and isolation, with MC Ride's adding to the sense of undermined comfortability with guttural vocals.

Tracks like "No Love" and "World of Dogs" feature heavy sledgehammer swing beats and abrasive, stripped instrumentation, letting chaos gush.The album's standout tracks, such as "Lock Your Doors" and "Artificial Death in the West," continue to explore the album's themes of power and control, with lyrics that touch on the dangers of authority and conformity.

Overall, "No Love Deep Web" is a showcase of challenging norms in the Hip-Hop genre. Death Grips' isolationist and uncompromising vision is truly an evolution in what one has come to expect from experimental tangents. The album is not for the faint of heart, but for those who can hang, it is a rewarding and indoctrinating listen.

We were able to press 10,000 copies of this 10th anniversary edition on the ever-classic coke-bottle clear vinyl, including an alternate cover (we like it just as much as the original) as well as a printed inner sleeve. For fans of Death Grips, this repressed LP is a must have and we at Softwax are proud to have been the ones to have recreated it.