Government Plates
Death Grips' fourth album Government Plates loudly reestablishes the band as a group freed by having no ideals whatsoever, making music without a past about a present with no future. It 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.
Released for free and without warning, the experimental hip hop group’s latest is another manic parody of tune.
If cancelled shows and major label snubs are anything to go by, budding Death Grips initiates would be wise to expect the unexpected. Case in point: Government Plates, the Sacramento trio's latest misanthropic statement to the world, was simply posted online with no prior hype.
Government Plates is another fascinating, frustrating, full-throttle effort from Death Grips.