User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The latest full-length release from Los Angeles experimental hip-hop group clipping. features guest appearances by Aesop Rock, Bitpanic, Cartel Madras, Nels Cline, and Tia Nomore.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Rap
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 9 out of 10
-
Mixed: 1 out of 10
-
Negative: 0 out of 10
-
Mar 14, 2025It’s simply a masterclass in vibrant, unique and breath-stealing hip-hop whose layers of complexity never stand in the way of its fun, vivid storytelling. Put on your headphones, plug yourself in and enter clipping.’s immaculately-crafted cyber world.
-
Mar 12, 2025Cinematic storytelling is nothing new for clipping. – and, with a vocalist who’s halfway to an EGOT, that ‘Dead Channel Sky’ is akin to a rollercoaster big-screen thriller is wholly expected - but nevertheless, it really is an epic masterpiece.
-
Mar 19, 2025Dead 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.
-
Mar 24, 2025While the album is their longest yet (20 songs), it rarely feels like anything close to a slog.
-
Mar 24, 2025Though 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.
-
Apr 8, 2025The result is a little bit cyberpunk, a little bit Blade blood-rave, and — in typical clipping. fashion — wholly unique.
-
Mar 12, 2025Dead Channel Sky’s brilliance is front-loaded. .... This vitality soon becomes mired in conceptual slog – testament that clipping. are capable of greatness but struggle to stay consistently great.