No Love Deep Web

*No Love Deep Web* is the equivalent of an exposed nerve: raw, throbbing, and deliriously painful. Where previous albums showcased Death Grips’ dense productions, this time the trio strip their sound to its barest essentials. “Come Up and Get Me” and “No Love” are skeletal monstrosities built from subterranean boom, technoid synths, and MC Ride’s tormented lyricism and gory acrobatics. The group also increase their reliance on programmed drums (as opposed to Zach Hill’s live drumming). As a result, cuts such as the paranoid “Lock Your Doors” possess a hulking, Techno Animal-style cyborg propulsion.

The 13 tracks on NO LOVE DEEP WEB thrive on paranoia and aggression, feelings threaded together by the sense that everything could be ending right now. For the second time this year, Death Grips have released a record that's both ruthless and rewarding.

Fans who download No Love Deep Web through Death Grips’ website first have to click past an enormous image of the album’s cover art: a photo of an erect penis, extended like a giant middle finger. The members of the guerrilla glitch-rap trio have left no doubt who that “fuck you” is directed toward. By their account,…

Death Grips - No Love Deep Web review: Death Grips throw up their hands at their record label and self release their grittiest album yet