Splendor & Misery

I was just thinking about relistening to this some weeks ago. clipping. is a group that does deserve the shine, not just for the novelty of their style but also their creativity. Daveed Diggs isn’t just any rapper and Hutson & Snipes aren’t just average noise musicians. Long term I do think they’re style is kind of repetitive but they throw in enough curveballs each time to keep it unique. This particular album is also one of their (if not the?) shortest which helps to keep it digestible. Interesting premise to! Might return to this one quicker than last time

An afro-futuristic prog conscious hip-hop concept album - right up my street! Not a band I had heard of before, but certainly one I will be exploring further. Well worth a place in the book, if only to showcase the variety of sounds and styles that are being crafted in the 3rd millennium.

Wow, this is sick. Didn't expect the guy from Hamilton who also voices Sebastian the Crab in the live action Little Mermaid remake to be behind a project as genre-pushing and interesting as this.

An interesting mix of hip-hop / ambient / electronic. I don't think it always works but I appreciate the effort to try something new. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No

Definitely a unique addition to this list… I appreciate it. The story was pretty interesting. The delivery entertaining. What more can I ask for?

Splendor & Misery is experimental hip hop album by clipping.. The music varies from electronic soundscapes to intense noise. The raps give it substance and bind the tracks on this dystopian sounding record. It is good most of the time (although sometimes really sparsely instrumented) and something else.

Certainly interesting, I felt on the fence throughout whether I'd actually call it music. I also don't think I could have actually extracted the narrative I read about in various analyses from just listening to it. Though on reading through the lyrics (and the fact that I bothered to do so does say something about the impression this made) I could see where these were coming from. While it may be more a piece of performance art than a hip hop album I'll bump it an extra point because the genre and themes are so much in my wheelhouse, and for a Samuel Delaney shout out.

Var lite skeptisk till en början men musiken är ju fantastisk. Är ju väldigt svag för noise. Dock är ju sången inget vidare vilket givetvis drar ner betyget.

4.3 Most refreshing bit of rap I've heard, possibly ever? Certainly since discovering Kendrick on the main list a few years ago. But wow, I'm not normally a rap fan but this hits on a other level. Sci-fi, most, atmospheric, noise-infused yet with a smattering of other genres used well in combination. This works perfectly as an album, individual tracks don't work by themselves. Doesn't hold it back too much though. Great find.

Experimental Sci-fi hip hop is such a specific genre with such a good hit rate on here

Truly unique I actually think it has that must listen quality 4/5

Experimental hip-hop. Curioso. Un 4, venga.

They combine styles that I don't like very much, hip hop and minimalist ambient noise, into something fascinating.

this will need a revisit

Rating: 6/10

This was interesting. Experimental hiphop is not something I have ever heard of. It was kinda enjoyable

Would consider myself a casual clipping. fan, I enjoy their work but hadn't listened to this LP before. As expected, the wordplay on this album is insane, Daveed Diggs stringing top-quality bars almost faster than one can comprehend them. Felt the production element was lacking though, the typical electronic insanity that characterizes the band's later work distinctly absent from this release. Bodies or Addiction to Blood would have been the superior clipping. add given how focused yet instrumentally abstract the band sounds on those albums, but this is still solid recognition for a worthy musical project that doesn't get near enough recognition.

Eh, I was kinda hoping for more from this. Parts of it are interesting, but overall I felt like there was very little for me to latch onto. It's experimental hip-hop, but I don't feel like the experiments are taking me anywhere. 3/5

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I recognised a voice! I felt smug for a bit I can see why Daveed Diggs was selected for Hamilton. Interesting album, pushing the boundaries but in an accessible way.

3.5

It's hip hop and or rap !

They’re better at horrorcore

Not bad

LOVE to see clipping here - but this is their worst work by far. Should've been Dead Channel Sky 2

Cool story driven stuff but the music itself is too weird 4 this little soy boy