Dead Channel Sky
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Because of their mix of hellified gangster shit and progressive compositions, I once jokingly called Clipping “Deathrow Tull.” Well, it’s not a joke anymore. While Clipping’s last few projects have been record-long concepts like classic prog rock, their cyberpunk-infused new album Dead Channel Sky is mixtape-like, a carefully curated collection in which every track is a love letter to a possible present. It sounds crisp and classic at the same time. When something strikes us as retrospective and futuristic at the same time, it’s a reminder of how slipshod our present moment truly is. Juxtaposing high-tech, corporate command-and-control systems (the “cyber”) with the lo-fi, D.I.Y. underground (the “punk”), cyberpunk proper starts in 1982 and ends in 1999, from Blade Runner to The Matrix. Concurrently, hip-hop matured, went through its Golden Era, then melted into further forms: it went from from Fab 5 Freddy to Public Enemy to Missy Elliott. While other genres flirted with it, hip-hop was fickle and fey. Rap and rock birthed mutant
Tracks
1~1~Intro1~2~Dominator
1~3~Change The Channel
1~4~Run It
1~5~Go
1~6~Simple Degradation (Plucks 1-13) (With Bitpanic)
1~7~Code
1~8~Dodger
1~9~Malleus (With Nels Cline)
1~10~Scams (Feat. Tia Nomore)
1~11~Keep Pushing
1~12~"From Bright Bodies" (Interlude)
1~13~Mood Organ
1~14~Polaroids
1~15~Simple Degradation (Plucks 14-18) (With Bitpanic)
1~16~Madcap
1~17~Mirrorshades Pt. 2 (Feat. Cartel Madras)
1~18~"And You Called" (Interlude)
1~19~Welcome Home Warrior (Feat. Aesop Rock)
1~20~Ask What Happened
Details
Catalogue Number: SPCD1575Format: CD
Artist: Clipping
Release Date: 14 March 2025
Genre: Alternative
Label: Sub Pop Records
Distributor: Inertia Music
