Death Grips - Jenny Death (The Powers That Be - Disc 2)
Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the second half of The Powers That B, Jenny Death. After the band's supposed break-up and a mediocre instrumental album, they released NOTW's sister, and the second disc of the group's double album. Let's see how this album sounds.
Immediately, we are hit with classic Death Grips action. I Break Mirrors With My Face In The United States is an energetic noise-fest, filled with Ride screaming his lungs out. The drumming is top notch, and the bass is heavier than ever.
Inanimate Sensation is one the band's longer songs, with the leading element in this track being a weird riser formed out of Ride's voice. The drumming is great, and the synths are especially diverse.
Turned Off features guitars in the beginning, before being distorted beyond recognition once the drums come in. As usual, more of your usual Death Grips soundscapes.
Why A B!tch Gotta Lie starts pretty odd and off-putting, featuring Ride rapping through a processor, before spiraling into a crazed mess of screams, drums and walls of synthesized sounds. Around the middle of the track, the sounds glitch out in what I can only describe as an epileptic fit of noise.
Pss Pss reminded me a lot of No Love Deep Web, with it's sparse mix and robotic drums. But unlike a lot of that album, here we find an actually interesting song, plus during the choruses, they bring in those classic sounds. Ride delivery on here is also incredibly haunting. His normal voice is very unnerving especially accompanied by the instrumental.
Next we have the title track which features your classic Death Grips distorted walls of sound. Ride is screaming as usual, and the drums on here are sound especially powerful.
Beyond Alive has some of the most distorted vocals I've heard on a Death Grips song. At points, I can barely understand Ride. The guitar work on here is also amazing.
Centuries Of Damn brings something I have never heard before on a DG song... do I hear a drop of melancholy. The guitars during the chorus play a sadder chord progression than usual... and you know I like that.
On GP is a pure rock song, but what's interesting here is that at points, the song calms down, and becomes much more melancholic than usual, and compared to the previous song, the rest of the instruments embrace that sadness, before returning to the loud, ruckus energy of the verses.
And we close on Death Grips 2.0, which is an instrumental track, which features incredibly sped up beats, and some of the cleanest sounds I've heard on a DG song. This song is like the demented love child of an acid house song and a breakcore/drill 'n' bass song. It's very disorienting, and that's why I enjoyed it so much.
And so that was The Powers That B. No weak spots, every song on here is at least good, and up until now, this might just be the band's best album (the entirety of The Powers That B).
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